Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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

Crane, George W.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Wilson, Colin

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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 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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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

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Horace

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dubay, S.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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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

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nightingale, Earl