Motivational Quotes

Mind

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

- Hamilton, Edith

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Sallust

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Wright, Steven

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Dubay, S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Plutarch

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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 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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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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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Buddha

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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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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.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Horace

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De