Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton, John

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Johnson

Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.

Daniel, Peter

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

Hare, David

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dubay, S.

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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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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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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 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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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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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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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Horace

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

Brande, Dorothea