Motivational Quotes

Mind

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cousins, Norman

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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

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

Loos, Anita

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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 lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Sallust

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Plutarch

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Gibran, Kahlil