Mind Quotes

True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Akhenaton

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace, Odes

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.

Jacqueline Cochran

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Orison Swett Marden

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Edward Albee

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Cicero

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Jean Nathan Mille

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Anthony Robbins

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

James Rippe, M. D.

On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly Le Brock

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

William Penn

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A storm broke loose in my mind.

Albert Einstein

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Robert South

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1