Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Dubay, S.

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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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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Sallust

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Loos, Anita

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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

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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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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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