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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Johnson

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

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

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Hill, Napoleon

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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 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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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Pancoast, Mal

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sallust

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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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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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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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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Brande, Dorothea

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Buddha

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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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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Diana, Princess of Wales