Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Milton, John

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Crane, George W.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aesop

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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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 mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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.