Motivational Quotes

Mind

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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

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

Daniel, Peter

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

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

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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 always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Aesop

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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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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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