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

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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Crane, George W.

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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Loos, Anita

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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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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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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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sallust

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dubay, S.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Maltz, Maxwell