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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas Jefferson

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Tony Robbins

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Audrey Hepburn

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt Disney

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob Marley

None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Napoleon Hill

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
John Wayne

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
Bob Dylan

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel Adams

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.
Charlie Sheen

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Thomas Aquinas

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