Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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

Nightingale, Earl

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Steinbeck, John

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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 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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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 brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Sallust

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Crane, George W.

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aesop

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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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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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

Sperry, Roger