Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Buddha

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Terence

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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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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

16.

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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Horace

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Johnson

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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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

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

Buckley, Lord

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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 there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

48.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.