Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Horace

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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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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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Loos, Anita

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Sperry, Roger

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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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Riley, Terry

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

Sallust

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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