Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Riley, Terry

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Praise, Endless

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

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

Milton, John

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

Horace

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

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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

Terence

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Aesop

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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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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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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

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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 water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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