Sound Mind Quotes:

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

- Haile Selassie

topic: Spiritual, Men, People, Sound Mind, Sound Body

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

- Evander Holyfield

topic: Mind, Peace Of Mind, Sound, Sound Mind

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

topic: Character, Mean, Men, Sound Mind, Sound Body

We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Mind, Sound, Needs, Sound Mind, Sound Body

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

- Samuel Johnson

source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.185

topic: Life, Strong, History, Sound Mind, Small Life

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Health, Mind, Sound, Sound Mind, Sound Body

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

- John Locke

source: 1693 Some Thoughts Concerning Education, opening words. See Juvenal 453:20.

topic: Happiness, Get Well, Health, Sound Mind, Mind Body And Soul

No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Son, Heaven, Sound Mind, Cringe

A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.

- Atsushi

topic: Soul, Mind, Sound Body, Sound Mind

The time has come when we must take an unyielding stand. We must shore up our spiritual underpinnings, listen to the prophets of God, and follow their counsel.Said Paul to Timothy: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.” (2 Timothy 1:7-8.)It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.

- W. Craig Zwick

topic: Spiritual, Choices, Mind, Sound Mind, Unyielding

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.

- Francis Bowen

topic: Men, Good Man, Mind, Sound Mind, Sound Body

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

- Juvenal

source: "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 356, 1890.

topic: Loss, Medicine, Mind, Sound Mind, Sound Body

Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.

- Jostein Gaarder

source: "Sophie's World". Book by Jostein Gaarder, 1995.

topic: Mind, Balance, Sound, Sound Mind, Sound Body

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

- Paul Valery

topic: Being Yourself, Being Single, Men, Sound Mind, Insanity And Sanity

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

- John Wesley

source: John Wesley (1835). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.476

topic: Prayer, America, Mind, Sound Mind, Prayer And Fasting

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

- Richard K. Morgan

source: Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.3, Del Rey

topic: Mother, Believe, Men, Sound Mind, Recently Deceased

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

- Jon Meacham

topic: Heart, Men, Two, Sound Mind

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Thinking, Long, Perfect, Sound Mind, Sound Body

Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about.

- Charlie Benante

source: Source: www.alternativenation.net

topic: Sound Mind, Different Minds, Touchy

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

- John Locke

topic: Happiness, Two, Mind, Sound Mind, Sound Body

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

- Humpy Koneru

topic: Exercise, Player, Training, Sound Mind, One Hour

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

- Joseph Pilates

source: Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

topic: Zest, Mind, Sound, Sound Mind, Physical Fitness

A sound mind in a manly body.

- Homer

topic: Military, Mind, Sound, Sound Mind, Manly

Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.

- Robert Blair

topic: Men, Giving, Mind, Sound Mind, Sound Body

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

source: Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.58

topic: Exercise, Men, Mind, Sound Mind, Rich Man

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5457, e-artnow

topic: Bible, Faith, Mind, Sound Mind

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

- Juvenal

topic: Prayer, Health, Mind, Sound Mind, Sana

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

topic: Sound Mind, Sound Body

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

- Joe Frazier

source: "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

topic: Mind, Sound, Body, Sound Mind, Sound Body

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Jesus, Father, Believe, Sound Mind, Biographers

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

- Benjamin Cardozo

topic: Dark, Years, Mind, Sound Mind

That’s right, I’m crazy. But, I don’t ever want to go back to being of sound mind again. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to. Because as crazy as I may get, I only have eyes for Ju Yoo Rin.

- Gongchan

topic: Crazy, Eye, Thinking, Sound Mind

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

- Charles Brockden Brown

source: Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing

topic: Evil, Design, Mind, Sound Mind

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.24, 谷月社

topic: Men, Healthy, Mind, Sound Mind