Mind Quotes

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Jean De la Fontaine

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Johathan Sacks

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Germaine De Stael

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

Sylvia Ashton - Warne

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Virginia Woolf

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Seneca

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Seneca

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Unknown

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, Satires

A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.

Eric Pio

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.

Unknown

Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmye

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.

Jack Youngblood

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

Lester R Bittel

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells, 1903

Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Hellen Kelle

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Benjamin Disraeli

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menande

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Mary Wortley Montagu

You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.

Coolio, The Winne

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adle