Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

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

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Buckley, Lord

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Aesop

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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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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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Plutarch

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Hare, David

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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 human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Sallust

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

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Terence

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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Praise, Endless

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.