Mind Quotes

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Buddha 563BC

Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.

Bertrand Wilbertforce

Among the mind's powers is one that comes of itself to many children and artists. It need not be lost, to the end of his days, by anyone who has ever had it. This is the power of taking delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Charles E Montague 1867

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

Dalai Lama 1935

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale 1898

Every day is irreplaceable, so don't ruin yours by allowing the negative moods of others to pull you into their frame of mind.

Anon xxxx

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Dale Carnegie 1888

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

Within your subconscious depths lie infinite wisdom, infinite power, and an infinite supply of all that is necessary.

Joseph Murphy

A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.

Bill Bethel

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T.E. Lawrence 1888

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford 1863

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

Daniel Webster

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Norman Vincent Peale 1898

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crack-pot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Thomas J. Watson

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James 1842

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Benjamin Franklin 1706

The true source of abundance is the silent mind, for within its fertile quietude rests all potential, all power, and all promise.

Guy Finley

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Don't mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James 1843

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.