Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dewar, Thomas Robert

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sallust

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Milton, John

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

Sarnoff, David

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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

Durant, William J.

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

Terence

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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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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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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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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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

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Riley, Terry

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Hare, David

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides