Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hare, David

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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

Sperry, Roger

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.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Terence

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

Aesop

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Cousins, Norman

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kempis, Thomas

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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