Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Praise, Endless

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Terence

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

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Wright, Steven

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sarnoff, David

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Auden, W. H.

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.