Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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

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

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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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

11.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wright, Steven

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Johnson

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

28.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Descartes, Rene

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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

Jenner, Bruce

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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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 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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Aesop

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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