Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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.

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

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

Daniel, Peter

The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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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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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Horace

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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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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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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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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