Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

Napoleon Hill

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

Napoleon Hill

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Og Mandino

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Northrop Frye

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

Northrop Frye

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

Os Guinness

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Om Puri

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

Oliver Stone

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

Eric Hoffer

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

Eric Hoffer

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Eric Hoffer

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

Eric Hoffer

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Eric Hoffer

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Jeremy Hardy

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

You've got to put it out of your mind.

William Shakespeare

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve on juries.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Joanne Froggatt

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Jo Coudert

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Jimmy Carter

We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?