Motivational Quotes

Mind

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Mind

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hare, David

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita