Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Loos, Anita

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Neuman, Alfred E.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dubay, S.

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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

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

Wright, Steven

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendricks, Gay

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sallust

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

Buddha

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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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Speare, Grace

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Cuppy, Will

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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

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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