Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Jackson, Andrew

Best Quotes about Mind

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dickens, Charles

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Sarnoff, David

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

Buddha

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sallust

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher