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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

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

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wright, Steven

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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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 stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Sallust

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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 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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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver