Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

Aesop

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

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

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

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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

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

Plutarch

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Brande, Dorothea

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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 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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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