As a Man, Thinketh is a short work attributed to Francis Bacon and the 19th-century American writer and businessman James Allen. The essay’s primary theme is the power of thought as it relates to one’s life experience.
The essay opens with an anecdote about a man sitting on a bench in front of his house, contemplating how quickly he can build his fortune. He believes that if he can do it, anyone can. His plan starts with one dollar, which will be invested in starting a business.
Below are some of the most inspirational thoughts on what it means to be an individual and how you can achieve your dreams.
63 Empowering As A Man Thinketh Quotes
1. “Circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.”
2. “He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.””
3. “Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
4. “A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of groveling thoughts and base desires.”
5. “Act is the blossom of thought.”
6. “By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
7. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”
8. “Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”
9. “Thought and action are the jailers of fate: they are also the angels of freedom.”
10. “When he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being…”
11. “As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”
12. “Man is always the master, even in his weakness and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.”
13. “They themselves are makers of themselves.”
14. “Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state.”
15. “Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.”
16. “Man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment and destiny.”
17. “Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”
18. “The mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstances.”
19. “By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection.”
20. “As a reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.”
21. “A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.”
22. “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.”
23. “As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.”
24. “A man’s mind may be likened to a garden which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must and will bring fourth.”
25. “A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.”
26. “Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligence accomplishment.”
27. “No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations; and man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself, the shaper and author of environment.”
28. “As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow.”
29. “The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.”
30. “As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.”
31. “Every man is where he is by the law of his being.”
32. “Strength can only be developed by effort and practices.”
33. “During the process of putting himself right, he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things, and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.”
34. “Mind is the master weaver.”
35. “The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires.”
36. “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
37. “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”
38. “Acts is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruit.”
39. “A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will bring forth.”
40. “As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought.”
41. “The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.”
42. “Only by patience, practice and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the door of the temple of knowledge.”
43. “When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.”
44. “Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of though he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.”
45. “Every man is where he is by law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.”
46. “Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.”
47. “Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it.”
48. “Even the man whole sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object.”
49. “Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”
50. “He is the maker of his character, the molder of his life, and the builder of his destiny.”
51. “Suffering ceases for him who is pure. A perfectly pure and enlightened being could not suffer.”
52. “Circumstances do not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”
53. “A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances.”
54. “A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish.”
55. “The strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting-point for future power and triumph.”
56. “The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves and also that which it fears.”
57. “Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.”
58. “He also reveals, within himself, the laws of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of his character, circumstances, and destiny.”
59. “He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.”
60. “The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state…Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
61. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”
62. “Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.”
63. “Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.”
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