Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Buckley, Lord

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Durant, William J.

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

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

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

Praise, Endless

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

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

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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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

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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

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

Aesop

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

Horace

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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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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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Buddha

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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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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