Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Wright, Steven

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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.

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

Dubay, S.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Loos, Anita

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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Milton, John

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.