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Mental Quotes

Unstoppable Mentality: 100 Quotes to Strengthen Your Mind

1. "The mind is everything. What you think, you become." - Buddha



2. "An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates



3. "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right." - Henry Ford



4. "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William S. Burroughs



5. "You are what you think about all day long." - Ralph Waldo Emerson



6. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." - William James



7. "The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open." - Frank Zappa



8. "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think." - Buddha



9. "You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius



10."Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale



11. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill



12. "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary



13. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius



14. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." - Buddha



15. "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill



16. "Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude." - Roy T. Bennett



17. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." - Proverbs 23:7



18. "The mind is everything; what you think you become." - Buddha



19. "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." - Confucius



20. "A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." - Mahatma Gandhi



21. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar



22. "Mental toughness is essential to success." - Vince Lombardi



23. "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



24. "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water." - Bruce Lee



25. "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton



26. "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." - Joyce Meyer



27. "The energy of the mind is the essence of life." - Aristotle



28. "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary." - Blaise Pascal



29. "The most important thing about a person is not their capabilities but their mindset." - Carol Dweck



30. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch



31. "Today I'm not not what I think I am, I'm not what you think I am, I am, what I think, you think, I am" - Cooli



32. "Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind." - Plato



33. "Where the mind goes, energy flows." - Tony Robbins



34. "Our thoughts create our reality; where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go." - Peter McWilliams



35. "Mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance." - James Allen



36. "We cannot solve today's problems with the same thinking we used when creating them." - Albert Einstein



37. "It is no measure of one's health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti



38. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein



39. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius



40. "Man is not disturbed by events, but by the view he takes of them." - Epictetus



41. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche



42. "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." - Albert Einstein



43. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." - Alice Walker



44. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi



45. "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare



46. "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Allen



47. "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



48. "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese Proverb



49. "Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair



50. "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind." - Buddha

51."Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations." - Federico Fellini



52. "The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt



53. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman



54. "You become what you think about." - Earl Nightingale



55. "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



56. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius



57. "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." - Søren Kierkegaard



58. "Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton



59. "It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war." - Chinese proverb



60. "Your thoughts are a catalyst for self-perpetuating cycles. What you think directly influences how you feel and how you behave." - Dr. Joe Dispenza



61. "If you think you’re beaten, you are." - Walter D. Wintle



62. "A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." - Shakespeare



63. "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan



64. "Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done." - David Goggins



65. "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



66. "The mind can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven." - John Milton



67. "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein



68. "The key to happiness is a mind that is free of attachment and aversion." - Buddha



69. "The best revenge is not to be like your enemy." - Marcus Aurelius



70. "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



71. "You don't know what you don't know." - Socrates



72. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein



73. "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



74. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch



75. "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness." - Albert Einstein



76. "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



77. "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you." - Brian Tracy



78. "If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." - Lao Tzu



79. "Your greatest weapon against stress is your ability to choose one thought over another." - William James



80. "Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most." - Abraham Lincoln



81. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." - Bruce Lee



82. "Energy flows where attention goes." - Tony Robbins



83. "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



85. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson



86. "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



87. "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha



88. "Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure." - Napoleon Hill



89. "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." - William Arthur Ward



90. "Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu



91. "No man is free who is not master of himself." - Epictetus



92. "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering." - Yoda



93. "The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius



94. "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs



95. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world." - Albert Einstein



96. "When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale



97. "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius



98. "To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



99. "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



100. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - Haruki Murakami

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