Mind Quotes

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

C. C. Colton

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don? t mind, it doesn? t matter.

Satchel Paige

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Edmund Spense

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

Karl von Bonstetten

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Robert Valett

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Martin Luthe

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Alfred A. Montapert

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Ronnie Lott

Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Anonymous

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

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

John Kenneth Galbraith

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - - Not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - - But you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

William E. Holle

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

Elayne Boosle

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

John Sloan

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Albert Einstein.