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

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

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

Riley, Terry

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Descartes, Rene

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Buckley, Lord

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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 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

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dubay, S.

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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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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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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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

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 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.

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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman