Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Maltz, Maxwell

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gibran, Kahlil

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Syrus, Publilius

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Sperry, Roger

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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Baba, Meher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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