Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Praise, Endless

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

Churchill, Winston

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

Horace

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

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Aesop

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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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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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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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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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

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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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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Plutarch

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Johnson