Motivational Quotes

Mind

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Mind

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

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

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Kempis, Thomas

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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Plutarch

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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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 mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Johnson

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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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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne