Motivational Quotes

Mind

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

- Praise, Endless

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Wright, Steven

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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 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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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

Horace

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

Steinbeck, John

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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