Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Sallust

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

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Plutarch

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Terence

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Riley, Terry

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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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've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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