Mind Quotes

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
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
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
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
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
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steve Biko
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! — Napoleon Hill
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
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
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
Napoleon Hill
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health. — Dalai Lama
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
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
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
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. — Napoleon Hill
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. — Bruce Lee
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
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
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
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Mary Shelley
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