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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dubay, S.

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Auden, W. H.

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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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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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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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