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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Sallust

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.

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

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wright, Steven

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Sperry, Roger

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

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

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

Johnson

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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Dickens, Charles

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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 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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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 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 waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.