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

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

Plutarch

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

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Fairfax, Edward

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Johnson

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dubay, S.

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

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

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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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Milton, John

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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 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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.