Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Johnson

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

Aesop

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Riley, Terry

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

Auden, W. H.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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 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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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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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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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Buddha

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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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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Philo

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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.