Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dewar, Thomas Robert

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

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

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

Plutarch

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Dickens, Charles

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Hare, David

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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Riley, Terry

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

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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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

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sallust

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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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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Loos, Anita

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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