Motivational Quotes

Mind

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Mind

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Loos, Anita

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Wright, Steven

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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

Johnson

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

23.

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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Is there no way out of the mind?