Motivational Quotes

Mind

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dubay, S.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Smith, Adam

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

Horace

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo