Mantra Mantra Quotes

#1. Prana ... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech.

David Frawley

#2. You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Amit Ray

#3. I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

Ruth Wilson

#4. Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.

Aporva Kala

#5. When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

David Horsey

#6. If it's meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

Jennifer Hudson

#7. My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

Michael Fassbender

#8. I am a blade of silver, a sickle of ice - Assassin Ghe, old assassin mantra

Greg Keyes

#9. The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

N. T. Wright

#10. I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi

#11. I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.

Katie Hoff

#12. I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat too much junk food, and enjoy what you eat. Or, to summarise: eat less, eat better, move more, and get political.

Marion Nestle

#13. Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

DJ Shadow

#14. If "Been there, done that" isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list.

Gina Greenlee

#15. What is fear?" she breathed. 'Fear is nothing. Fear is illusion. Pass through its fire. Truth lies at its core. What it Truth?" She stood up, feeling calmer and glared up at the sinking sun. "I am Truth," she whispered fiercely.

J.D. Lakey

#16. Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. - Zen mantra

Barry L. Duncan

#17. I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

Rachel Nichols

#18. From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#19. Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.

Gloria Steinem

#20. Repeat after me: "I am a goddess. I am a goddess. I am a goddess." Make this your mantra. From constant repetition you will start believing it, and if you yourself are convinced of your goddesshood, other people will be convinced.

Jessica Zafra

#21. Om Namah Shivaya.
I honor the divinity that resides within me.
... I repeat it again. Again. And again. It's not so much that I'm meditating as unpacking the mantra carefully, the way you would unpack your grandmother's best china if it had been stored in a box for a long time, unused.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. My mantra, like most, was that if it didn't kill you, it only made you stronger. Later on in life, after being beat down by the experiences following you'll read about, I've changed the mantra to, if it doesn't kill you now, it will later.

Jennifer Topper

#23. In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

Mira Nair

#24. It was the same mantra she had silently chanted before on other festive occasions. 'May you be happy'--her mother had wanted to be happy, hadn't she? Didn't everyone?" Things Unsaid, from Chapter, "Birthday Celebration

Diana Y. Paul

#25. That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

Maelle Gavet

#26. A mantra like one of those ridiculous self-help hypnosis cds playing in my head on a loop: I am a strong, confident, sexually experienced woman who does not need to feel ashamed of her nudity.

Jessica Gadziala

#27. We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.

Taraka Larson

#28. This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?

From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets.

Robert Delgado

#29. You might wish to try Kali's mantra. Kali is another celestial being. She offers very fast spiritual progress through intensity. Her mantra is "Kring!" When you chant Kring, chant it very intensely and sharply. Only chant Kring when you are in a high meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Endure the cold, and true love will follow.

Rosca Marx

#31. Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about ... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

Shailene Woodley

#32. Regarding the mantra ... "There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue. Just because the body can tolerate something doesn't mean it's a necessity for progress. This is simply poor logic.

Steve Shaw

#33. If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?

Eknath Easwaran

#34. The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'

David Perry

#35. Leaving 'things' up to chance is the lazy man's mantra. The successful man takes action every day, until his purpose is fulfilled."
- Daliah Husu -

Daliah Husu

#36. There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

Dayananda Saraswati

#37. We keep waiting for another Mahatma to make a difference in our society and nation. Well it is time to stop waiting. The mantra is "I change to change India". Which means each of us is the Mahatma and has the power to change this nation. Failing which we shall never change for the better.

Jeroninio Almeida

#38. It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

Frederick Lenz

#39. My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.

E.L. James

#40. In addition to her Curtsey-No-Contraction mantra, she needed to add a No-Ogling-the-Period-Hunks policy.

Angela Quarles

#41. Mantra is a phrase that is designed to free the mind.

Robin S. Sharma

#42. If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.

Nora Ephron

#43. The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

Diana Nyad

#44. Every time I get scared or feel like I'm not going to be good enough at something, I say that mantra to myself. "Pretend you're good at it."

Jenny Lawson

#45. The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

Frederick Lenz

#46. I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.

Narendra Modi

#47. The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Michael Lee-Chin

#48. Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each sound. As you do, you will see the consciousness of beauty of everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

#49. Our mantra was simplicity.

Donna Dubinsky

#50. My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.

Alexandra Stoddard

#51. Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

Irwin Redlener

#52. Happiness is not the Achievement of Dreams.
It is the Path to Dreams.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#53. Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

John Green

#54. She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra.

Kristin Hannah

#55. I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

Jamie Bell

#56. Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#57. Think solutions - is the mantra for success.

Radhakrishnan Pillai

#58. Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

John Prendergast

#59. I operate under this one mantra: only when provoked.

Marla K. Benjamin

#60. When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need to defeat?,' you start to see the unfolding of God in everything and everyone around you and you shift into higher consciousness.

Wayne Dyer

#61. Or recite this mantra: om mani padme hum (pronounced "om mani padmay hum").

Dalai Lama XIV

#62. Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands ... Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.

Steven Pinker

#63. I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

Stephane Rolland

#64. Winning people's heart requires more than 'I've being there, done this and that...' mantra.

Assegid Habtewold

#65. If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#66. The apprentice avoids all use of Java classes. The journeyman embraces Java classes. The master knows which classes to embrace and which to avoid.

Michael Fogus

#67. If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#68. I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things.

Robert Glasper

#69. As I began reconsidering my recently adopted "single forever" mantra,

Scott Hildreth

#70. Mantra: My swirling mind becomes peaceful, and my body releases all tension. I surrender to the love of the universe, which heals me totally.

Jay Woodman

#71. 'Fox lies' has become a favorite mantra of the Left, yet there is a reason Fox News blows away the other cable networks in ratings and is more trusted as a news source than any other television network.

Ronald Kessler

#72. Time management is the mantra of my life.

Vir Das

#73. That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]

Steve Jobs

#74. My mantra is if you want to help people accomplish some goal, make it easy.

Richard Thaler

#75. MANTRA: "My demand as a woman is that my difference be taken into account and that I not be forced to adapt to the male model.

Anne Berest

#76. I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

Scilla Elworthy

#77. My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.

Francisco Costa

#78. When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

Doug Liman

#79. The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind." That which protects the mind from negativity, or that which protects you from your own mind, is called mantra.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#80. My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.

Bryan Batt

#81. A mantra is nothing more than a collection of words strung together to create a positive effect.

Robin S. Sharma

#82. I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

Alex Ebert

#83. My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

Alton Brown

#84. My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

Mark Burnett

#85. A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer, but really it's an opening of a conversation between the heart and the mind.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#86. As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Uday Kotak

#87. Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#88. Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.

Evan Osnos

#89. Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#90. Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.

Frederick Lenz

#91. It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release.

Michael Gira

#92. We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.

Narendra Modi

#93. Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all!

Lisa Vanderpump

#94. His last thought flashed like a mantra over and over again.
Let the challenge begin.

Jennifer Probst

#95. You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.

Rick Moody

#96. Kring is the mantra of power. "Kring" should only be repeated when you are in deep meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#97. The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.

Joel Bakan

#98. The Budget is in line with our vision for a skilled & digital India, guided by Mantra of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas'.

Narendra Modi

#99. The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

James Nesbitt

#100. My big mantra is 'food is medicine,' so I really love being able to talk about how you can make food your medicine, how you can make food be the thing that hopefully allows you to live a longer, happier, healthier life.

Travis Lane Stork