Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Fairfax, Edward

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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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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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 fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Sallust

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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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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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