Motivational Quotes

Mind

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

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

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

Hare, David

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Brande, Dorothea

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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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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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 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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

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

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

Horace

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Kempis, Thomas