Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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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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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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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Sperry, Roger

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

Hendricks, Gay

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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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