Motivational Quotes

Mind

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.

Best Quotes about Mind

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Aesop

13.

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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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Horace

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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

Plutarch

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

Jenner, Bruce

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

28.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Hare, David

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

Terence