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

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

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

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

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

Benjamin Franklin 1706

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.

Guy Finley

The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks.

Guy Finley

Just as hatred and vengefullness exist in the mind, peace and love can also exist in the mind.

Mata Amritanandamayi Devi