Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Mind

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Aesop

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

Gibran, Kahlil

What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sallust

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Hare, David

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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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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu