Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

- Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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

Loos, Anita

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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.