Motivational Quotes

Mind

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

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

Sperry, Roger

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Hare, David

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Loos, Anita

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Terence

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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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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

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Brande, Dorothea

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