Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Buckley, Lord

Best Quotes about Mind

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

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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 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

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

Sallust

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Milton, John

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Horace

15.

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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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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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 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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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.

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Praise, Endless

28.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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

Crane, George W.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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