Motivational Quotes

Mind

All the resources we need are in the mind

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Mind

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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

Buckley, Lord

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Kempis, Thomas