Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Buckley, Lord

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

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Dubay, S.

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

Cousins, Norman

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Aesop

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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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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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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

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

Horace

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

Daniel, Peter

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Brande, Dorothea