Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Ramakrishna, Sri

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Horace

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

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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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

Riley, Terry

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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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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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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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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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

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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