Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Durant, William J.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Terry

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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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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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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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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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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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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

Brande, Dorothea

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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 mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Loos, Anita