Motivational Quotes

Mind

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.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Horace

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Riley, Terry

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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

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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Daniel, Peter

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Johnson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buddha