Motivational Quotes

Mind

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Mind

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dubay, S.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Daniel, Peter

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Johnson

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Steinbeck, John

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.