Motivational Quotes

Mind

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Buckley, Lord

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.

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

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

Sallust

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

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Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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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 mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hare, David

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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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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