Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Terence

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Smith, Adam

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Jenner, Bruce

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Terence

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aesop

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

Loos, Anita

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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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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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