Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Mind

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Hill, Napoleon

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Pancoast, Mal

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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

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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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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

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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 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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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

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.