Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

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

Riley, Terry

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

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

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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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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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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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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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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 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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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