Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Brande, Dorothea

11.

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

17.

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

18.

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

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

Jenner, Bruce

20.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

21.

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

Steinbeck, John

22.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

28.

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

Freud, Sigmund

30.

Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

32.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

33.

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

Jackson, Andrew

34.

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

36.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

37.

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

38.

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

39.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

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

41.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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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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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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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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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 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.

49.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

50.

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

Horace