Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Johnson

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Sperry, Roger

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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