Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Hendricks, Gay

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Kempis, Thomas

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Steinbeck, John

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Auden, W. 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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hare, David

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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

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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 direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Aesop

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

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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

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

Smith, Adam

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

Riley, Terry

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.