Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Praise, Endless

Best Quotes about Mind

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.

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

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

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Aesop

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

27.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

28.

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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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 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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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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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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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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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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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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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert