Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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 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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Crane, George W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Cousins, Norman

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl