Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Steinbeck, John

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kempis, Thomas

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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

Cousins, Norman

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Terence

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

Wright, Steven

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Johnson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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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 brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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

Sallust

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Dickens, Charles

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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