Motivational Quotes

Mind

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Loos, Anita

Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Dubay, S.

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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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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Milton, John

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sallust

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Aesop

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.