Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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

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

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

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.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Durant, William J.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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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

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Wright, Steven

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Cousins, Norman

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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