Motivational Quotes

Mind

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

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

Plutarch

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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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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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Sallust

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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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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

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.