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

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Plutarch

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Aesop

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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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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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

Loos, Anita

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

Sallust

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Wright, Steven

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Steinbeck, John