55 Mind Over Matter Quotes To Get You Thinking
The concept of “mind over matter” emphasizes the incredible power of the mind to influence our physical well-being and shape our reality.
These quotes highlight the idea that our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes can significantly impact our lives, empowering us to overcome challenges and achieve our goals.
Here are some inspiring “mind over matter” quotes that underscore the strength and potential of the human mind.
List of Quotes on Mind Over Matter
#1 Unknown
“The only limits that exist are the ones in your own mind.”
#2 David Adam
“Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.”
#3 Rene Descartes
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
#4 Mark Twain
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
#5 Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
#6 Henry Ford
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – either way you’re right.”
#7 Uknown
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
#8 Lao Tzu
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
#9 Napz Cherub Pellazo
“Clear out your thoughts, don’t believe everything you think, it might be a trap within”
#10 Lou Holtz
“Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”
#11 Victoria Osteen
“As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!”
#12 Bob Marley
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
#13 Kevin Abdulrahman
“The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.”
#14 Norman Vincent Peale
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
#15 Idowu Koyenikan
“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
#16 Kemi Sogunle
“What you feed your mind, will lead your life.”
#17 Napoleon Hill
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
#18 Naomi Judd
“Your body hears everything your mind says.”
#19 Joyce Meyer
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
#20 John Addison
“You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.”
#21 Todd Perelmuter
“Isn’t it funny we talk about mind control but we can’t even control our own mind?”
#22 Germany Kent
“Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.”
#23 Charlotte Eriksson
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind, the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that, and why I don’t want to look like this and be like that but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.”
#24 Kamand Kojouri
“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.”
#25 Émile Coué
“If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it however difficult it may be. If on the contrary you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.”
#26 Émile Coué
“Thought – or suggestion – is able to mold the human body as a sculptor chisels his clay.”
#27 Bryce Courtenay
“The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, often well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete; the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better. Hoppie’s dictum to me, “First with the head and then with the heart,” was more than simply mixing brains with guts. It meant thinking well beyond the powers of normal concentration and then daring your courage to follow your thoughts.”
#28 Tim Lebbon
“Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.”
#29 David Levithan
“There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body’s urges, the body’s needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it’s in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.”
#30 Paramahansa Yogananda
“The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!”
#31 José Silva
“I am filled with wonder that everyone has not caught on to the power of their minds over their bodies. […]
I meet not hundreds but many thousands [of people who practice The Silva Method for training the mind to create your own reality] who report truly wonderful self-healings. These are now commonplace to me.”
#32 José Silva
“It is an inescapable fact that we already know enough to strengthen with our mind the body’s repair forces so that illness can be combatted more successfully.”
#33 Paramahansa Yogananda
“Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force has none. Believe that: you shall be well and strong.” […] Chronic dyspepsia had afflicted me since childhood. […] Master’s words instantly convinced me that I could successfully apply their truth in my own life. No other healer (and I had tried many) had been able to arouse in me such profound faith. Day by day I waxed in health and strength. Through Sri Yukteswar’s hidden blessing, in two weeks I gained the weight that I had vainly sought in the past. My stomach ailments vanished permanently.”
#34 Itayi Garande
“The human mind doesn’t care what you plant in it. What you plant is what it returns.”
#35 Itayi Garande
“Our thoughts and perceptions shape the world we live in and we possess the ability to alter our perceptions today, not tomorrow. This means we hold the power to modify our actions.”
#36 Itayi Garande
“We must recognize that everything we want, the life we desire, is on the other side of our fears. The fear that the little voice brings up inside our heads can hold us back from the perfect version of our lives. The only way to get to the other side of fear is to step out of our comfort zone and take action.”
#37 Itayi Garande
“Living a life held captive by fear and staying inside our comfort zone is not a life fully lived.”
#38 Stewart Stafford
“Always heed a warning,” my father used to say. Your gut instinct will tell you when something doesn’t feel right, but your mind will override it and make you do things. Intuition is there to protect you from danger, and you should trust it.”
#39 Donna Goddard
“We are masters at not seeing the obvious. So, our body takes on the connection for us. Once we relieve it of this responsibility, it usually jumps for joy and jumps right out of whatever physical predicament it had to acquire on our behalf. The karmic dumping ground of our body is the storehouse of many memories. Bodies have their own highly effective way of doing the talking.”
#40 Lev Grossman
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
#41 William S. Burroughs
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
#42 Lou Holtz
“Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.”
#43 Christine Evangelou
“The beauty of our mind lies in its resources as our creative organizer toward our higher hopes and dreams. On the one hand, it is the home of our rational and logical thought, yet on the other, it is the birthplace of our creativity, where our imagination floats freely in limitless lands.”
#44 Laurence Sterne
“In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
#45 Leonardo da Vinci
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
#46 Theodore Roosevelt
“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
#47 Victoria Osteen
“As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!”
#48 Edgar Allan Poe
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
#49 Mehmet Murat ildan
“Mind is the second sky on earth, full of mysteries!”
#50 Myra Yadav
“Mind, purpose, passion, and discipline are majestic pillars of the building of big success; the building can’t stand even if one pillar is weak.”
#51 Aristotle
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
#52 Edwin Way Teale
“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.”
#53 Bob Marley
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
#54 Rene Descartes
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
#55 Kevin Abdulrahman
“The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.”
