Motivational Quotes

Mind

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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 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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dubay, S.

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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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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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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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 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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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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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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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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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

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Sallust