Motivational Quotes

Mind

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Mind

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cioran, E. M.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Sperry, Roger

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

Hare, David

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

Jackson, Andrew

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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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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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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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Aesop

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

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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