Motivational Quotes

Mind

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

- Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

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

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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Auden, W. H.

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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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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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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 fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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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 mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne