Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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

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.

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

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Horace

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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 the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Dubay, S.

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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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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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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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