Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Loos, Anita

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

Praise, Endless

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

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

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.

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Terence

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Dickens, Charles

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wilson, Colin

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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

Hendricks, Gay