These mind quotes will inspire you. Mind the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought or a person’s ability to think and reason; the intellect.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mind quotes, mind sayings, and mind proverbs.
Best Mind Quotes
- “Here in your mind, you have complete privacy. Here there’s no difference between what is and what could be.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.” ~ Angelique Kidjo
- “Don’t believe everything you hear – even in your own mind.” ~ Daniel Amen
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“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.” ~ Graham Greene
- “A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.” ~ Francis Bacon
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“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” ~ William James
- “You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day” ~ Deepak Chopra
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ~ Henry Ford
- “Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” ~ Plutarch
- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
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“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “You either control your mind or it controls you.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~ Robertson Davies
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” ~ John Milton
- “Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.” ~ Louise Hay
- “The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” ~ William James , Human mind quotes
- “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” ~ Confucius
- “Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” ~ Bernard Baruch
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.” ~ Isabelle Holland
- “The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “Great minds think alone.” ~ Wiz Khalifa
- “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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“Lose your mind and come to your senses.” ~ Frederick Salomon Perls
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki
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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.” ~ Alice Meynell
- “Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “It’s all in the mind.” ~ George Harrison
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Fear is the mind-killer.” ~ Frank Herbert
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“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” ~ Sivananda
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven’t got a theory and I haven’t got a framework.” ~ Tom Peters
- “Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.” ~ James Allen
- “An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- “Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero -
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ~ Mark Twain
- “In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don’t you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.” ~ Bob Marley - “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Learning never exhausts the mind.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” ~ Gautama Buddha , Peace of mind quotes
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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “This is where you will win the battle – in the playhouse of your mind.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
- “A good mind possesses a kingdom.” ~ Seneca the Younger
Mind the part of a person that makes it possible for him or her to think, feel emotions, and understand things.