Motivational Quotes

Mind

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Loos, Anita

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

Smith, Adam

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Horace

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

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Sarnoff, David

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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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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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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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As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wright, Steven

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

Johnson

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Sallust

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

37.

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

Riley, Terry

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Plutarch

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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson