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

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.

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

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

Johnson

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

Wright, Steven

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Churchill, Winston

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Riley, Terry

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

Steinbeck, John

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Plutarch

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Loos, Anita

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

Sallust

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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