Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Jenner, Bruce

Best Quotes about Mind

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Horace

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

Descartes, Rene

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

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wright, Steven

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hare, David

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

Loos, Anita

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

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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 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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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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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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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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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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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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