Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Jackson, Andrew

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Wright, Steven

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Crane, George W.

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

Daniel, Peter

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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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 like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Aesop

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

Loos, Anita

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Horace

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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