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

Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Loos, Anita

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

Terence

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Johnson

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sperry, Roger

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 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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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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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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Wooden, John

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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.