Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Brande, Dorothea

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

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

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dubay, S.

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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

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Horace

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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

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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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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Riley, Terry

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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

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

Plutarch