Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Mind

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Wright, Steven

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

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

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

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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 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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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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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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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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 human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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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

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

Riley, Terry

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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

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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 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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hare, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ramakrishna, Sri