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

Johnson, Gerald W.

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Sallust

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Steinbeck, John

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buddha

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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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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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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 mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Aesop

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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 is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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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