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

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Wright, Steven

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Loos, Anita

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Churchill, Winston

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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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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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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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Collier, Robert

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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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'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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Riley, Terry

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Plutarch

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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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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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von