Motivational Quotes

Mind

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Mind

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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 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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wright, Steven

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Descartes, Rene

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hare, David

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sarnoff, David