Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Loos, Anita

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sallust

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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 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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Aesop

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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

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Crane, George W.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Horace

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

35.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Wright, Steven

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Dubay, S.

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

Maltz, Maxwell