Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Maltz, Maxwell

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Hare, David

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 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

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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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

Riley, Terry

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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

Cousins, Norman

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Fairfax, Edward