Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Baba, Meher

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Crane, George W.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sallust

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

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

Terence

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

Johnson

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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 water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward 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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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

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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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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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.

Seneca

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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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 the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Auden, W. H.