Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Loos, Anita

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dubay, S.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Johnson

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Horace

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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Crane, George W.

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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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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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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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 most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust