Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

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.

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

Sallust

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Crane, George W.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Milton, John

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

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

Plutarch

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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 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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Johnson

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

Horace

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

Aesop

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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 conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De