Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Descartes, Rene

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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.

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

Sperry, Roger

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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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 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 human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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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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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dubay, S.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Aesop

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?