Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Auden, W. H.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

Allen, James

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Crane, George W.

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

Praise, Endless

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

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

Baba, Meher

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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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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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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Plutarch

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Sallust

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Aesop

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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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