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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Dubay, S.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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