Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Mind

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Syrus, Publilius

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Plutarch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Riley, Terry

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

Hendricks, Gay

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Wright, Steven

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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