Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Buckley, Lord

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

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

Johnson

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Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

Allen, James

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Loos, Anita

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

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

Auden, W. H.

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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Steinbeck, John

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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?