Motivational Quotes

Mind

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Loos, Anita

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

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

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

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Milton, John

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Freud, Sigmund

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dickens, Charles

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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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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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You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you are spiritually conditioned. I always told my players that our team condition depended on two factors -- how hard they worked on the floor during practice and how well they behaved between practices.

Wooden, John

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Crane, George W.

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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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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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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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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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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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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dubay, S.

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

Hare, David

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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Sperry, Roger