Motivational Quotes

Mind

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Jackson, Andrew

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Freud, Sigmund

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Wright, Steven

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 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 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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Sallust

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dubay, S.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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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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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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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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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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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 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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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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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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