Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

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

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.

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

Aesop

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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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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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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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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