Motivational Quotes

Mind

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Horace

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Smith, Adam

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

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Aesop

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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 incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hare, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Terence

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Freud, Sigmund