Mental Power Quotes

• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  The more you know the less you need to say.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.242, Best Books on

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  The best way out is always through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

  Nikola Tesla

  Objectivity, Effort, Brain

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.641, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

  DR. LAURENCE J. PETER (1972). “THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT”

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• Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Mlm, Fearless, Tao Te Ching

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.174, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Taught

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• The more you know, the less you need.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Positivity, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

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• The more you know, the less you carry

  Mors Kochanski

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Monk

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• The more you know the less you talk.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mlm, Tao Te Ching, Monk

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• We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Today

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• The more you know the less you understand.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Mlm, Tao Te Ching

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• The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Mind, Taught

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• The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Order, People

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1915). “Social Evils and Their Remedy”

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• ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Night, Mind

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Character, Men

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical.

  Johannes Kepler

  Fall, Reading, Science

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• I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

  David Klass

  Hope, Quiet, Beacons

  David Klass (2008). “Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy:”, p.381, Macmillan

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• And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

  James Merrill

  Thinking, Voice, Imagination

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