Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Sallust

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Sallust

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Riley, Terry

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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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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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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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

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Aesop

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Loos, Anita

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

33.

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

Fairfax, Edward

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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.

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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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

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

Daniel, Peter

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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