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

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

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley

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

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

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

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas R. Dewar

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash