Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Mind

What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Wilson, Colin

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Praise, Endless

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

Johnson

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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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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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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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dubay, S.

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Terence

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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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 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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Aesop

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Fuller, Buckminster