Motivational Quotes

Mind

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Fuller, Buckminster

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dubay, S.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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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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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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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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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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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 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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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

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Horace

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Descartes, Rene