Top 200 Mind Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You either control your mind or it controls you.”

— Napoleon Hill

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2. “The sky is not the limit. Your mind is.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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3. “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

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4. “There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.”

— Les Brown

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5. “The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.”

— Warren Buffett

6. “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”

— Ronnie Lott

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7. “Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”

— Tony Robbins

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8. “Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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9. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— Napoleon Hill

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10. “Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Manifestation Quotes, Intention Quotes, Imagination Quotes

11. “You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”

— Yoko Ono

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Imagination Quotes

12. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Philosophical Quotes

13. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

14. “The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Change Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

15. “All problems are illusions of the mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Deep Quotes

16. “You can do it if you believe you can.”

— Napoleon Hill

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17. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”

— Earl Nightingale

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18. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

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19. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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20. “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

21. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Powerful Motivational Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Positive Motivational Quotes, Manifestation Quotes

22. “Feeling is the secret.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

23. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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24. “Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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25. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”

— Walt Disney

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26. “You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”

— Osho

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27. “Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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28. “Mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

— Buddha

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29. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Awakening Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Wellness Quotes

30. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

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31. “A disciplined mind brings happiness.”

— Buddha

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32. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

— Thomas Paine

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

33. “There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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34. “Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes

35. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Deep Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

36. “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”

— Sigmund Freud

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37. “When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Wellness Quotes

38. “If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Deep Quotes

39. “Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Practice Quotes

40. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Quotes About Water

41. “We are like magnets – like attract like. You become AND attract what you think.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

42. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Wellness Quotes

43. “Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.”

— Tupac Shakur

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44. “How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

45. “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

46. “The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

— William James

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47. “All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.”

— Alan Cohen

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48. “As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Universe Quotes

49. “You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Intention Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

50. “To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj