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 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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Sallust

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

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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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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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

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pancoast, Mal

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Terence

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Dubay, S.

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

Horace