Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Horace

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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.

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

Auden, W. H.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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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

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

Riley, Terry

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Fairfax, Edward

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.