Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

Plutarch

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

Wright, Steven

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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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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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

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

Horace

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

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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Hanson, Dr. Jean

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, 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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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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