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

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Daniel, Peter

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

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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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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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Horace

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

Sallust

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Wright, Steven

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Buddha

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Nightingale, Earl

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All the resources we need are in the mind