Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Hare, David

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

Crane, George W.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Auden, W. H.

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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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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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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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Churchill, Winston

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Terence

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger