Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Riley, Terry

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Johnson

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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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

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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 was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Auden, W. H.

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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