Prosperity begins with a state of mind.
—Indian Proverb
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
—Robert Collier (1885–1950) American Self-Help Author
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.
—Common Proverb
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (b.1947) American Basketball Player, Author, Actor
Your mind is always consumed with your own misconception. Abstain from associating it with lustful influences.
—Buddhist Teaching
You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors—how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.
—John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
—Richard Carlson (1912–77) American Actor, TV Personality, Film Director, Screenwriter
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
—Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) French Essayist, Polymath, Philosopher
The mind is like an iceberg—it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
The brain’s calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
—Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American Author, Editor, Orator
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
—Bruce Jenner (b.1949) American Sportsperson
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) British Novelist, Playwright, Critic
The mind is not a hermit’s cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
—Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American Sociologist
If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.
—Unknown
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
—Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) English Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Don’t let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.
—Unknown
A misdirected mind causes a worse destruction than a robber or an enemy can do to each other.
—Buddhist Teaching