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

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

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

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

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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 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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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Dubay, S.

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

Johnson

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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

Horace

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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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Praise, Endless

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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 center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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