Motivational Quotes

Mind

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Crane, George W.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Baba, Meher

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Sallust

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Horace

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

Loos, Anita

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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.