Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hendricks, Gay

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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

Plutarch

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Sallust

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

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

Buddha

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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

Dubay, S.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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