Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Mind

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

Plutarch

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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 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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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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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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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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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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 incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Maltz, Maxwell