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

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Loos, Anita

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

Hare, David

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Terence

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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

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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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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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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 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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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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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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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia