Top 100 Quotes About Your Own Mind
#1. Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
Maxwell Maltz
#2. I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.
Philipp Meyer
#3. Sometimes I think there are memories you hide within your own mind because they're too much to deal with.
Chelsea Landon
#4. Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else.
Ally Condie
#6. Cleanliness beings with purity of your own mind, thoughts and heart.
Vishwas Chavan
#7. Oh come in from the confines of your own mind my dear
Because worry is all you'll find there it's clear
And tomorrow will always come
And tomorrow may well bring the sun
Ben Howard
#8. Respect the boundaries of the world even as you strive to break through the boundaries of your own mind.
Yonason Goldson
#9. It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.
Frederick Lenz
#10. You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that.
Roald Dahl
#11. Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.
Ayn Rand
#12. How Your Own Mind Works You have a mind, and you should learn how to use
Joseph Murphy
#13. Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
Ruth Ozeki
#14. The art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That's why you need the peace of mind.
Robert M. Pirsig
#15. Rushing to my side, he palms my face before I can protest. "That's exactly the issue, though. You don't know your own mind. It's full of the secrets of your past, and instead of trying to understand that, you are charging pig-headed down the wrong path.
Siobhan Davis
#16. It must be an awful feeling to have love all around you and not feel loved, to be in need and unable to accept whats being offered, to see a world of possibilities but trapped inside your own mind.
Tracy L. Darity
#17. This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#18. You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
Gail Kelly
#19. What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#20. See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
Guru Nanak
#21. Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.
Mary Kay Ash
#22. Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
Henepola Gunaratana
#23. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.
Napoleon Hill
#24. Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind.
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#26. If you're 'stuck' right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind.
Neale Donald Walsch
#27. Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.
Dean Koontz
#28. Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.
Scott Bakula
#30. You're a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I'm going to trust that you know your own mind.
Tessa Dare
#32. You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
David Allen
#33. Knowledge is power. Power in the aspect of making your own mind up;and, not accepting what others tell you.
Temitope Owosela
#34. The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.
Ken Wilber
#35. Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
David Levithan
#36. Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.
Daniel Amen
#37. The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.
Atisa
#38. I want considerate people to listen to the voice of Aikido. It is not for correcting others; it is for correcting your own mind. This is Aikido. This is the mission of Aikido and should be your mission.
Morihei Ueshiba
#39. I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.
Louis C.K.
#40. Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.
Frederick Lenz
#41. All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.
Frederick Lenz
#42. You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.
Robert Adams
#44. All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?
Richelle Mead
#45. By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
#46. Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!
Napoleon Hill
#47. First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.
Confucius
#48. You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."
Frederick Lenz
#49. The real Journey is a personal venture into your own mind content. Nobody, not the greatest mystic, the most vaunted guru, the most hailed psychologist, though they might shuttle you along the trail for a ways, will get you there. Only you yourself can do that.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#50. What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
Dogen
#51. The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.
Rose McGowan
#52. If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
S. N. Goenka
#53. If you are a person with victim mentality, start making decisions on your own and live using your own mind
Sunday Adelaja
#54. You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#55. Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.
Nayvadius Cash
#56. The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.
Frederick Lenz
#57. You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.
Kevin Michel
#58. As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
Bodhidharma
#59. There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Richard O'Brien
#60. So when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation.
Eckhart Tolle
#61. You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
Orson Scott Card
#62. Sometimes you must slow down to see that the world isnt spinning, rather its your own mind which makes things turn
Sedrie Danielle
#63. Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
Jack Kornfield
#64. The main thing in life is to know your own mind.
Tove Jansson
#65. In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
Natalie Goldberg
#66. Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!
Guy Finley
#67. People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#68. I have learned that ...the seat of all the conflict......... is your own mind ....
Monish Bhalla
#70. The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
Paddy Chayefsky
#71. To write good SF today ... you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.
Gardner Dozois
#72. And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others
Vikas Swarup
#73. If peace is to come, it must be peace within your own mind and heart. If hatred is to die, you must scotch it within yourself. If intelligence is to triumph, you must be intelligent. There is no other pathway, no other salvation.
Henry Wriston
#74. You do not have a problem except the one that is in your own mind, and you put it there!
Myrtle Fillmore
#75. Look for Buddha outside your own mind,
and Buddha becomes the devil.
Dogen
#76. If one day you see a ghost somewhere, you must know that it is your own mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. The only reality you can be sure about is in your own perceptions. If the universe exists, it exists inside your own mind and the minds of others.
Al Ries
#79. The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.
Jose Silva
#81. As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
Albert Brooks
#82. If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind.
Demetri Martin
#83. 28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?
Epictetus
#84. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.
Orson Scott Card
#85. The answer you may be seeking, to the questions which have caused you to ponder over the strangeness of life, maybe found in your own mind,
Napoleon Hill
#86. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you with hold the "aye.
Kahlil Gibran
#87. It turns out that the more you repeat the same action, no matter how reprehensible, the more you can make an excuse for it in your own mind.
Jodi Picoult
#88. A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.
Terry Teachout
#89. If you know your own mind, you know enough to keep it always positive.
Napoleon Hill
#90. You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.
Rajneesh
#91. You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.
Frederick Lenz
#92. The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.
Eva Cox
#93. Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.
Michael Moore
#94. Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett
#95. I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.
Shailene Woodley
#96. When you are a prisoner in your own mind, imprudence soon becomes your cellmate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#97. If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.
Simon Toyne
#98. Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.
Robin Olds
#99. Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.
Jim Stanford
#100. Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Bruce Lee
