Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Descartes, Rene

Best Quotes about Mind

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

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

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

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Hendricks, Gay

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.

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

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Steinbeck, John

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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

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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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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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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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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Aesop

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wright, Steven

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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.