Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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

Milton, John

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Wright, Steven

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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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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

Aesop

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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 closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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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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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 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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.