Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Dickens, Charles

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Hare, David

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hill, Napoleon

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Johnson

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

Plutarch

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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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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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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

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Dubay, S.

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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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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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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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