Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Loos, Anita

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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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 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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.