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 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

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

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

'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.

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Praise, Endless

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Buddha

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Steinbeck, John

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wright, Steven

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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