Motivational Quotes

Mind

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.

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

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

Terence

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Riley, Terry

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jenner, Bruce

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dubay, S.

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, 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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Hendricks, Gay

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Maltz, Maxwell