Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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 is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Crane, George W.

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

Hare, David

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.

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Sallust

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

Loos, Anita

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Aesop

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

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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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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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Horace

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace