Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Crane, George W.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Horace

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dickens, Charles

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Buddha

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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 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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Terence

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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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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 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 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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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