Motivational Quotes

Mind

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.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Plutarch

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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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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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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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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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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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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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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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Wright, Steven

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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 has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Loos, Anita

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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.