Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Daniel, Peter

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Loos, Anita

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We are that which activates the body.