Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Mind

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wright, Steven

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Riley, Terry

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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 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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Hendricks, Gay

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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