Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Praise, Endless

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

Pancoast, Mal

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jenner, Bruce

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Crane, George W.

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aesop

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

Plutarch

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Buddha

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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