Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Descartes, Rene

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Hare, David

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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 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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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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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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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aesop

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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.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Johnson

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Sallust

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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 fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith