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

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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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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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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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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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl