Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about Mind

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dyer, Wayne

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 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 mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Wright, Steven

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

Aesop

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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