Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Aesop

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

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Cioran, E. M.

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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

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

Dubay, S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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 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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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 so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Horace

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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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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

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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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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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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

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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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

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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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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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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne