Mind Quotes
There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.
Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.
My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, and instruct and inform its mind. For there is also the spirit. And of the three, the greatest is the spirit.
Without the body and the mind, as all men know, the Nation could not live.
But if the spirit of America were killed, even though the Nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the America we know would have perished.
I have always believed exercise is a key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred, but realized later they can take everything from me except my mind and heart.
Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.
The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends and myths and sifting the true from the false.
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
The device of "rejection" may temporarily cover up anxiety, but it does not bestow peace of mind and emotional security.
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