Motivational Quotes

Mind

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Sallust

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

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Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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

Plutarch

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Auden, W. H.

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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

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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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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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.

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

Hendricks, Gay