Motivational Quotes

Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Freud, Sigmund

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Sperry, Roger

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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

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

Hare, David

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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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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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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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

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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

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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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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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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

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

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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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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