Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Jenner, Bruce

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Milton, John

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dubay, S.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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 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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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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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Riley, Terry

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

Crane, George W.

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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 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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Plutarch

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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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