Motivational Quotes

Mind

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Best Quotes about Mind

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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 disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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

Loos, Anita

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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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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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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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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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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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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jenner, Bruce