Motivational Quotes

Mind

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Milton, John

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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

Freud, Sigmund

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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Churchill, Winston

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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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

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Steinbeck, 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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Fairfax, Edward