Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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.

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

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Pancoast, Mal

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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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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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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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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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

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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 beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sallust

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Loos, Anita

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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