Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Freud, Sigmund

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Horace

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Terence

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

Descartes, Rene

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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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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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Steinbeck, John

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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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