Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Hare, David

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Milton, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Dickens, Charles

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Johnson

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aesop

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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 beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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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

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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 can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem