Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Terence

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.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Sallust

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

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Freud, Sigmund

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Steinbeck, John

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran