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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Steinbeck, John

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pancoast, Mal

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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 brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Aesop

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

Dubay, S.

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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