Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Terence

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

Riley, Terry

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

Praise, Endless

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Horace

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

Descartes, Rene

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Milton, John

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

Plutarch

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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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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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