Motivational Quotes

Mind

If you never change your mind, why have one?

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Mind

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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.

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

Plutarch

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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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 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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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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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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Aesop

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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.

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Maltz, Maxwell