Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Hill, Napoleon

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

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

Milton, John

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Sallust

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Dubay, S.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Jackson, Andrew

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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