Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Plutarch

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Horace

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

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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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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Terence

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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 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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?