Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Praise, Endless

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Sperry, Roger

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.

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

Fairfax, Edward

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Plutarch

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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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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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 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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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Steinbeck, John

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Pancoast, Mal

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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