Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Mind

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

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

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

Dubay, S.

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

Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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 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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Brande, Dorothea

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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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

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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 human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

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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 chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Sallust

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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