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

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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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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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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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Sallust

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

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

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

Loos, Anita

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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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

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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 it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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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 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

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Riley, Terry

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides