Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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.

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Wilson, Colin

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Churchill, Winston

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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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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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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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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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sallust

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Aesop

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Wright, Steven