Motivational Quotes

Mind

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

- Carlson, Richard

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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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

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Aesop

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

Wright, Steven

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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 brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence