Motivational Quotes

Mind

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

- Jackson, Andrew

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Horace

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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

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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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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Loos, Anita

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

Terence

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dubay, S.

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Steinbeck, John

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Dickens, Charles

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