Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Descartes, Rene

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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 its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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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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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