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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Steinbeck, John

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Sallust

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Buckminster