Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Mind

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Hare, David

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Pancoast, Mal

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Syrus, Publilius

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Aesop