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

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

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

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

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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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 a parachute functions only when open.

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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

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

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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 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 mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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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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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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Jackson, Andrew

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Syrus, Publilius