Mind Quotes - Page 10

• Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

  John Forbes Nash

  Creativity, Class, Dull

  "Fictional character: John Forbes Nash". "A Beautiful Mind", 2001.

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• All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

  Stephen Covey

  Philosophy, Character, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind
  Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
  His soul proud Science never taught to stray
  Far as the solar walk or milky way.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Science, Clouds

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 99

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• Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind."

  Joseph Murphy

  Doe, Arguing, Conscious

  Joseph Murphy (2015). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.38, Om Books International

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• Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Faces

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Design, Ruins

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.108

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• Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

  Augustus William Hare

  Writing, Ink, Paper

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Nature's first great title--mind.

  George Croly

  Titles, Firsts

  Richard Dagley, George Croly (1822). “Gems: Principally from the Antique”, p.23

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• A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Sailor, Great Minds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.13

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• Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

  Robert Southwell

  Lying, Men, Mirrors

  Robert Southwell, “Look Home”

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• I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

  Robert Southwell

  Grace, Coins, Care

  Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.58

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• The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

  Mark Akenside

  Fate, Blow, Fire

  Mark Akenside, “The Pleasures Of Imagination: Book The Second”

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• Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

  Mark Akenside

  Grace, Different, Wonderful

  Mark Akenside (1744). “The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three Books”, p.136

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• The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

  John Masefield

  Years, Soul, Growth

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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• Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Believe, Men, Stupidity

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• A mind, once formed, is never suited after,
  One yet in growth will ever grateful be.
  [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen,
  Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Grateful, Growth

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• I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.

  Wayne Dyer

  Powerful, Childhood, Viruses

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”, p.28, Hay House, Inc

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• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sublime, Steel, Nerves

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.74, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
  The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.

  Homer

  Lasts, Bears, Mankind

  Homer, John Selby WATSON (1858). “The Odyssey of Homer; Translated by Alexander Pope. To which are Added the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by Parnell; and the Hymns by Chapman and Others. With Observations and Brief Notes by the Rev. J. S. Watson ... Illustrated with the Entire Series of Flaxman's Designs”, p.217

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• It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

  St. Vincent

  God, Prayer, Helping Others

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• Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

  Epictetus

  Grateful, Humble, Creation

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.49

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• I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Suffering, Body, Married

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.548

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• It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

  William Bridges

  Change, Team, People

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• Don't believe everything you think.

  Unknown

  Motivational, Wisdom, Believe

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