Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Kempis, Thomas

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Churchill, Winston

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Terence

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Bevan, Aneurin

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sallust

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

Loos, Anita