Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 147
The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey
Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.
Henry George Bohn
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
Chanakya
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
Kate Reid
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.
Eileen Simpson
Thinking is movement confined to the brain
Arvid Carlsson
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
