Motivational Quotes

Mind

All the resources we need are in the mind

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brande, Dorothea

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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

Plutarch

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

Aesop

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

Steinbeck, John

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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