Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Brande, Dorothea

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Buddha

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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 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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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.