Motivational Quotes

Mind

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Sallust

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

Seneca

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Johnson

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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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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

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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 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 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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dubay, S.

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Loos, Anita

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Plutarch

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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