Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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

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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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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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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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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Horace

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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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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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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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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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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dickens, Charles