Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aesop

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Horace

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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 employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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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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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

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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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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 mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri