Motivational Quotes

Mind

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Praise, Endless

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

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

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

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Aesop

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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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Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

Harman, Willis

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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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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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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 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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Steinbeck, John

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Johnson