Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Loos, Anita

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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 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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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Wright, Steven

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

Aesop

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

Johnson

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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

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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