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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Cioran, E. M.

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

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

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

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

Dubay, S.

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Milton, John

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl