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

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 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.

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Freud, Sigmund

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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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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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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

Descartes, Rene

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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 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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Aesop

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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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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Horace

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin