Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

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

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

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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 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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

Descartes, Rene

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Aesop

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Dubay, S.

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Baba, Meher