Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Jenner, Bruce

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Horace

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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

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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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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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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sallust

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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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl