Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Hill, Napoleon

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Sallust

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Aesop

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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Horace

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Loos, Anita

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Baba, Meher

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Hamilton, Edith

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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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

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Riley, Terry

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

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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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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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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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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 beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Churchill, Winston

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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