Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Aesop

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cousins, Norman

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Terry

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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

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Buddha

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

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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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 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

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert