Motivational Quotes

Mind

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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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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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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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