Motivational Quotes

Mind

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Best Quotes about Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dubay, S.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Sperry, Roger

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Johnson, Gerald 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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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Aesop

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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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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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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

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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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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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

Steinbeck, John

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.