Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Jackson, Andrew

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Kempis, Thomas

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Wright, Steven

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

Loos, Anita

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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Johnson

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Dubay, S.

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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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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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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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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia