Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Jenner, Bruce

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Wright, Steven

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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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 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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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Wooden, John

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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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The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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