Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Descartes, Rene

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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 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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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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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 mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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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Collier, Robert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hendricks, Gay

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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.