Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Mind

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Descartes, Rene

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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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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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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

19.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Milton, John

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Steinbeck, John

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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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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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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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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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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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dubay, S.