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

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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.

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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 moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Terence

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

Johnson, Gerald W.