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

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

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Wright, Steven

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Steinbeck, John

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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem