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

Milton, John

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

Auden, W. H.

One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

Sarnoff, David

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jackson, Andrew

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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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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

Steinbeck, John

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Collier, Robert

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Riley, Terry

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

Bentov, Itzhak

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert