Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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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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