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

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

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

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

Terence

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

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

Sallust

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Aesop

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 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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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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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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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 mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Steinbeck, John

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Daniel, Peter

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wright, Steven

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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