Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Mind

There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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.

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.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Horace

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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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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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plutarch

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

Wright, Steven

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

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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jackson, Andrew

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.