Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Pancoast, Mal

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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.

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

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

Wright, Steven

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Diana, Princess of Wales