Motivational Quotes

Mind

We are that which activates the body.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Terence

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Loos, Anita

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

Descartes, Rene

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

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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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 conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sallust

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

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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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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 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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Johnson

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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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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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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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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