Don King Quotes

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

Nobody can say anything to take what's for me away from me. And I live by that.

The important thing to remember is you control you. Nothing else can control you.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think...The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

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