Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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Best Quotes about Mind

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

Pancoast, Mal

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

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

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

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

Buckley, Lord

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Terence

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

Sallust

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Aesop

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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 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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Steinbeck, 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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George