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

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Aesop

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

Hendricks, Gay

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Steinbeck, John

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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 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 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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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

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

Riley, Terry

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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

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

Auden, W. H.

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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 moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Praise, Endless

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dubay, S.

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