Guru Nanak Quotes

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.