Motivational Quotes

Mind

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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

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.

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

Sperry, Roger

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Horace

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Aesop

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.