Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Mind

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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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 employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

Riley, Terry

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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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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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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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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Aesop

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily