Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Dubay, S.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Sallust

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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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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Aesop

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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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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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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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