Motivational Quotes

Mind

We are that which activates the body.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Mind

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Syrus, Publilius

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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

Sallust

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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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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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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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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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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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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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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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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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver