Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Plutarch

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

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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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

11.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Horace

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

Dubay, S.

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

Aesop

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

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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