Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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 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.

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Buckley, Lord

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

Johnson

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

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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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

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Loos, Anita

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

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

Sallust

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Crane, George W.

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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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