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

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

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

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

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Freud, Sigmund

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Sallust

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Hendricks, Gay

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.