Motivational Quotes

Mind

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

- Fairfax, Edward

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kempis, Thomas

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Jenner, Bruce

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dubay, S.

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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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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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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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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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 beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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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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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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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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.