Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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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 you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Terence

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

Riley, Terry

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Milton, John

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wright, Steven

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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