Frank McCourt Quotes

My mind's my kingdom.

You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind.

Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.

My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.

I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

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

My mind to me an empire is.

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth.