Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Mind

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Brande, Dorothea

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cioran, E. M.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Aesop

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

Loos, Anita

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Dubay, S.

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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Hendricks, Gay

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