Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Aesop

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Robbins, Anthony

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

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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 fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

Dubay, S.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Buddha