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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

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

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Crane, George W.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

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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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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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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

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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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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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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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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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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Horace

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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 human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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

Auden, W. H.