Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dubay, S.

Best Quotes about Mind

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

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

Riley, Terry

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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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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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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 not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Aesop

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

Dubay, S.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Cousins, Norman

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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