Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Johnson

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

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

11.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

13.

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.

14.

The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

15.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

19.

Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

20.

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

21.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

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

Daniel, Peter

24.

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

Cioran, E. M.

25.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

26.

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

Johnson

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Terence

29.

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

Jenner, Bruce

30.

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

31.

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

32.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Sallust

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Cousins, Norman

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Auden, W. H.

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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.

50.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry