Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Riley, Terry

Best Quotes about Mind

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Horace

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

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

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 mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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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

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sperry, Roger

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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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 most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Loos, Anita

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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

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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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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wright, Steven

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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