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Mental Quotes
Unstoppable Mentality: 100 Quotes to Strengthen Your Mind
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become." — Buddha
"An unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right." — Henry Ford
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." — William S. Burroughs
"You are what you think about all day long." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." — William James
"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open." — Frank Zappa
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think." — Buddha
"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength." — Marcus Aurelius
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." — Norman Vincent Peale
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." — Winston Churchill
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." — Edmund Hillary
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." — Marcus Aurelius
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." — Buddha
"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." — Napoleon Hill
"Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude." — Roy T. Bennett
"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." — Proverbs 23:7
"The mind is everything; what you think you become." — Buddha
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." — Confucius
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." — Zig Ziglar
"Mental toughness is essential to success." — Vince Lombardi
"The only way to deal with fear is to face it, never to avoid or deny it. Feel it fully, and then beyond that, leave room for the miraculous to happen." — Mooji
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water." — Bruce Lee
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." — John Milton
"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." — Joyce Meyer
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." — Aristotle
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary." — Blaise Pascal
"The most important thing about a person is not their capabilities but their mindset." — Carol Dweck
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch
"Today I'm not what I think I am, I'm not what you think I am, I am, what I think, you think, I am." — Cooli
"Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind." — Plato
"Where the mind goes, energy flows." — Tony Robbins
"Our thoughts create our reality; where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go." — Peter McWilliams
"Mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance." — James Allen
"We cannot solve today's problems with the same thinking we used when creating them." — Albert Einstein
"It is no measure of one's health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." — Krishnamurti
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." — Albert Einstein
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." — Marcus Aurelius
"Man is not disturbed by events, but by the view he takes of them." — Epictetus
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." — Albert Einstein
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." — Alice Walker
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so." — William Shakespeare
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." — James Allen
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" — Muhammad Ali
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." — Chinese Proverb
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." — George Addair
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind." — Buddha
"Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations." – Federico Fellini
"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman
"You become what you think about." – Earl Nightingale
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." – Vince Lombardi
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." – Søren Kierkegaard
"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything." – Alexander Hamilton
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war." – Chinese Proverb
"Your thoughts are a catalyst for self-perpetuating cycles. What you think directly influences how you feel and how you behave." – Dr. Joe Dispenza
"If you think you’re beaten, you are." – Walter D. Wintle
"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." – William Shakespeare
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." – Michael Jordan
"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done." – David Goggins
"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." – Deepak Chopra
"The mind can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven." – John Milton
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." – Albert Einstein
"The key to happiness is a mind that is free of attachment and aversion." – Buddha
"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy." – Marcus Aurelius
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." – Buddha
"You don't know what you don't know." – Socrates
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." – Albert Einstein
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." – Henry David Thoreau
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." – Plutarch
"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness." – Albert Einstein
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." – Maya Angelou
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you." – Brian Tracy
"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." – Lao Tzu
"Your greatest weapon against stress is your ability to choose one thought over another." – William James
"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most." – Abraham Lincoln
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." – Bruce Lee
"Energy flows where attention goes." – Tony Robbins
"A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done." – Napoleon Hill
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless—like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend." – Bruce Lee
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." – Buddha
"Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure." – Napoleon Hill
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." – William Arthur Ward
"Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." – Lao Tzu
"No man is free who is not master of himself." – Epictetus
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering." – Yoda
"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts." – Marcus Aurelius
"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." – Steve Jobs
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world." – Albert Einstein
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." – Confucius
"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it." – Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." – Haruki Murakami
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
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