Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Baba, Meher

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Terence

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

Baba, Meher

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

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

Auden, W. H.

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Aesop

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

11.

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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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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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 mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 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 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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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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

Brande, Dorothea

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Churchill, Winston

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Horace

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Milton, John

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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