Motivational Quotes

Mind

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Sallust

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

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

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

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Dubay, S.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Aesop

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Loos, Anita

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

Riley, Terry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Seneca