Mind Strengthening Quotes

#1. The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing
to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

John Keats

#2. Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

#3. Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. There is no room for a complainer in a universe of law, and worry is soul-suicide. By your very attitude of mind you are strengthening the chains which bind you, and are drawing about you the darkness by which you are enveloped, Alter your outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter.

James Allen

#5. You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

Glenn Beck

#6. You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman.
Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.

Philip Roth

#7. An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.

Thomas Aquinas

#8. Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

Bill Watterson

#9. We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

George W. Bush

#10. The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Rubianne Wood

#11. An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

Thomas Aquinas

#12. You have to take away the idea that something you do is right or wrong. I don't think there's a right or a wrong; I think there's an "it works" or "it doesn't work" for the whole. And that's why you need a director you trust, so you can just keep throwing out suggestions.

Susan Sarandon

#13. Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#14. A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

David Lubar

#15. Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Matt Groening

#16. I raised my cup. "To Blake Mitchell - no, never mind. To me.

Heather Demetrios

#17. Harry was just as interested as everyone else to see what was in this large parcel, and was amazed when the owls soared down and dropped it right in front of him, knocking his bacon to the floor.

J.K. Rowling

#18. Valentine's Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love.

M.F. Moonzajer

#19. Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

Hans Rosling

#20. There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

James Allen