Motivational Quotes

Mind

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Loos, Anita

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

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

Riley, Terry

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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