
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivananda
These 106 quotes on mind come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.Swami Sivananda

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.B.R. Ambedkar

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Gautama Buddha

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.William Shakespeare

Chance favors the prepared mind.Louis Pasteur

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.Steve Biko

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.Marcus Aurelius

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.Kahlil Gibran

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.Sitting Bull

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Zhuangzi

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.Gabriela Mistral

Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.Charles Eastman

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.Jiddu Krishnamurti

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Be water, my friend.Bruce Lee

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

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.Shunryu Suzuki

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.Plutarch

Learning never exhausts the mind.Leonardo da Vinci

We must be fair — fair, starting in our own minds.Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.Seneca
The mind is everything. What you think you become.Gautama Buddha
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.Jonas Salk
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.Napoleon Hill
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.Thomas Dewar
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.Lao Tzu
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to beAbraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.Wayne Dyer
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.Aristotle
Many people think of prosperity that concerns money only to forget that true prosperity is of the mind.Byron Pulsifer
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.Gautama Buddha
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.Dalai Lama
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.Gautama Buddha
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.Richard Bach
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.Albert Einstein
Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.Paavo Nurmi
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.Thich Nhat Hanh
You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.Remez Sasson
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.Rene Descartes
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.Gautama Buddha
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.Leonardo da Vinci
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Henri Bergson
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Mortimer Adler
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.Kahlil Gibran
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.Gautama Buddha
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you…William James
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 Marden
Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.Gautama Buddha
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.William Burroughs
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.Jamie Paolinetti
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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Will Durant
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.Dalai Lama
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.Gautama Buddha
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.Napoleon Bonaparte
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without…Ralph Marston
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.Napoleon Hill
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.Eckhart Tolle
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centred by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.Chuang Tzu
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.Aristotle
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.Ella Wilcox
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Why do I find no peace of mind? There was, after all, only one person in the whole world.Jaun Elia
A body of clay, a mind brimming with joy, a life of one fleeting moment — that is my introduction.Harivansh Rai Bachchan
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.Rosa Parks
Success is achieved twice: once in the mind, and the second time in the real world.Azim Premji
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.Arnold Schwarzenegger
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.Audrey Hepburn
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.Jagadish Chandra Bose

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things!Napoleon Hill

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.Ramakrishna

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.Napoleon Hill

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.Rabindranath Tagore

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.Dalai Lama

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.Wayne Dyer

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.Seneca

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl S. Buck

An open heart is an open mind.Dalai Lama

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.Napoleon Hill

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.Bruce Lee

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.Mark Twain

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.Blaise Pascal

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things into it.Terry Pratchett

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.Dalai Lama

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.Wayne Dyer

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.Napoleon Hill

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.Thich Nhat Hanh

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.Bruce Lee

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.Mark Twain

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.Mary Shelley