Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Brande, Dorothea

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 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

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

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

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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wilson, Colin

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Steinbeck, John

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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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 moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts