Powerful Mind Quotes:

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Positive Thinking, Power Of The Mind, Inspirational Bullying

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Positive Thoughts, Power Of The Mind

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational Character, Inspirational Goal, Maximizing, Greatest Achievement

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

If you think you can do it, you can.

- John Burroughs

topic: Life, Sports, Thinking, Powerful Life Changing, Powerful Mind

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Sports, Powerful, Long, Powerful Mind

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment they attempt any depth or generality of thought, they go mad almost infallibly. The vast majority, of course, adopt the local religious madness, as naturally as they adopt the local dress. But the more powerful minds will, equally infallibly, fall into the worship of some intelligent and dangerous lunatic, such as Plato, or Augustine, or Comte, or Hegel, or Marx.

- David Stove

topic: Religious, Powerful, Plato, Generalities, Augustine

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

- Maria Konnikova

source: Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.264, Penguin

topic: Powerful, Mind, Doe, Powerful Mind

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

- Sydney Smith

source: Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

topic: Wise, Strong, Powerful, Supper, Different Books

People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human mind. that's the power of thought, which is nothing more- and nothing less- than energy. And when you have a particularly powerful mind, extraordinary things can happen.

- Vicki Pettersson

topic: Powerful, Lying, People, Powerful Mind

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

- Charles Babbage

topic: Powerful, Science, Effort, Fetters, Powerful Mind

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Powerful, Mind, Important, Powerful Mind

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

- Parker Posey

topic: Powerful, Children, Nice, Powerful Mind, Unborn Child

The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.

- H. G. Wells

source: "Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life And Thought". Book by H. G. Wells, www.gutenberg.org. 1902.

topic: Beautiful, Strong, Powerful, Powerful Mind