Motivational Quotes

Mind

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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Best Quotes about Mind

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Loos, Anita

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Riley, Terry

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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jenner, Bruce

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Churchill, Winston

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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.