Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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.

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

Crane, George W.

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

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

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Horace

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Sallust

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

Durant, William J.

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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

Plutarch

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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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.

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

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

Steinbeck, John

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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 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