Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Daniel, Peter

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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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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

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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