Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Dubay, S.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

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