Motivational Quotes

Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Jenner, Bruce

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.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

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

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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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 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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Freud, Sigmund

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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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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 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 like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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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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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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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 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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl