Motivational Quotes

Mind

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Sperry, Roger

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

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

Plutarch

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

Sallust

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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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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.

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

Terence

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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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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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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Wright, Steven

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

Riley, Terry

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Horace

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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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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Milton, John

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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.