Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Johnson

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

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

Hare, David

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

Brande, Dorothea

10.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Riley, Terry

13.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

14.

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

15.

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Freud, Sigmund

22.

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

Fairfax, Edward

23.

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

24.

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

Jackson, Andrew

25.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Brande, Dorothea

27.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

29.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

30.

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

Daniel, Peter

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

38.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

39.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

40.

Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

41.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

42.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

43.

The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

44.

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

45.

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

Praise, Endless

46.

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.

47.

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

Sperry, Roger

48.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

49.

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

50.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker