Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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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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

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

Johnson

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Dubay, S.

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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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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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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Horace

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Aesop