63+ Best Mind Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Inspirational mind quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.

Most Famous Mind Quotes

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear. Ayrton Senna

Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. Leah LaBelle

The closer one comes to truth, the further one gets from mind. James Pierce

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Relax, allow the mind to become empty, and surprise yourself with the great treasure that begins to flow from your soul. Paulo Coelho

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. John Wooden

Every time your mind shifts, your world shifts. Byron Katie

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford

The mind reflects the world, and the world reflects the mind. James Pierce

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Khalil Gibran

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley

We say that we want peace of mind but what we really want is peace from mind. Naval Ravikant

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash

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

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman

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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. Abhishek Bachchan

Would you rather be right or free? Byron Katie

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

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

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time the mind, protecting its sanity covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. Rose Kennedy

If you want power, control the narrative in other people’s head. If you seek happiness, control the narrative in your own head.  Johnny Uzan

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren

There’s no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life. Byron Katie

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck

Every morning I wake up and thank God. Aaron Neville

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. Stephen Curry

Life is God’s novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Norman Vincent Peale

Not a mother, nor a father, nor any other relative can do more for the well being of one than a rightly directed mind can. The Dhammapada

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Divinity guides us all the time but most of us don’t know how to interpret its messages. Hina Hashmi

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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self. Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes answers come to you in ways that only you can understand. That is why it is so important to have a clear mind to receive and understand the message. Sheila M Burke

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison

Keep your ears open and listen to the whispers of the universe, it will direct you towards the right direction. Hina Hashmi

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. Edouard Manet

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. B. R. Ambedkar

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give pleasure, possessions, power but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. Dada Vaswani

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. Martha Beck

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. Robert Southey

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther

It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities. Kristin Armstrong

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

We must shift our thinking away from short term gain toward long term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make. Deb Haaland

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. Andy Rooney

Champions are not the ones who always win races champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. Champion is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes. Simon Sinek

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence. Sadhguru

Youth is not a time of life it is a state of mind it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Samuel Ullman

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. David Bailey

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes and that is why I am in a hurry. Mohammad bin Salman

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Leonardo da Vinci

Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. Tom Hanks

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar

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I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself. Virat Kohli

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions. Zhuangzi

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. Aesop

Hope you enjoy reading this collection of powerful mind quotes and let me know in the comment section which one will become your daily mantra.