Motivational Quotes

Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Wright, Steven

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Descartes, Rene

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aesop

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

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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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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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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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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Praise, Endless

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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 mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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