Quotes about Mind

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

A peaceful mind generates power.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

This is a noble magnificence of thought, a true religious greatness of mind, to be thus affected with God's general providence, admiring and magnifying His wisdom in all things; never murmuring at the course of the world, or the state of things, but looking upon all around, at heaven and earth, as a pleased spectator, and adoring that invisible hand, which gives laws to all motions, and overrules all events to ends suitable to the highest wisdom and goodness.

Now the Holiness of the common Christian is not an occasional Thing, that begins and ends, or is only for such a Time, or Place, or Action, but is the Holiness of that, which is always alive and stirring in us, namely, of our Thoughts, Wills, Desires, and Affections.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.