Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Neuman, Alfred E.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Churchill, Winston

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

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

Daniel, Peter

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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Aesop

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Horace

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Crane, George W.

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

Buddha

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

Steinbeck, John

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Pancoast, Mal