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

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

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Praise, Endless

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

Aesop

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Horace

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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 human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

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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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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Riley, Terry

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Cousins, Norman

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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