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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Auden, W. H.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kempis, Thomas

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Sallust

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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

Aesop

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

Buddha

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Terence

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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