Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Wilson, Colin

Best Quotes about Mind

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Hill, Napoleon

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Descartes, Rene

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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

11.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hare, David

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Johnson

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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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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 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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sallust

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Smith, Adam

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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.