Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kempis, Thomas

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Loos, Anita

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

Plutarch

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

Buddha

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Aesop

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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.