Motivational Quotes

Mind

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Mind

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Terence

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Aesop

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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 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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Dubay, S.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Earl

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.