Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Jackson, Andrew

Best Quotes about Mind

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dubay, S.

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

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

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

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hare, David

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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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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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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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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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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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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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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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 am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Buddha

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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