Motivational Quotes

Mind

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

- Hanson, Dr. Jean

Best Quotes about Mind

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Riley, Terry

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Johnson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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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 mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Plutarch

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Wright, Steven

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.