Motivational Quotes

Mind

If you never change your mind, why have one?

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Mind

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Sallust

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

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Dickens, Charles

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Plutarch

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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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

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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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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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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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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Loos, Anita

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Steinbeck, John

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