Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Mind

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Milton, John

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Horace

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Johnson

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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Sperry, Roger

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.