Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Mind

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser