Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Buddha

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

Terence

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Hare, David

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

Fairfax, Edward

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Horace

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Aesop

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

Wright, Steven

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dubay, S.

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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 are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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