Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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

Aesop

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Sallust

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger