Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fairfax, Edward

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

Hill, Napoleon

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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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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

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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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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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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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Wordsworth, William

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Riley, Terry

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

Sperry, Roger

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch