Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Riley, Terry

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Cousins, Norman

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

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

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.

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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

24.

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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Loos, Anita

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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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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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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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.