Motivational Quotes

Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Johnson

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Horace

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

Jackson, Andrew

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dubay, S.

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Wright, Steven

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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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 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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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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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