Motivational Quotes

Mind

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

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

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Johnson

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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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 brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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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 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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Dubay, S.

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Plutarch

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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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