Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Buddha

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wright, Steven

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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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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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Sperry, Roger

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Sallust

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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

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Everything is nothing. Everything is all. All is one. One is inconceivable, infinite. Therefore it is nothing. Everything is matter. Matter is electricity. Electricity is invisible, intangible. Therefore it is nothing. Therefore, everything is nothing. Atoms are made up of electrons and protons. (Protons are also nothing) Fifty billion electrons placed side to side in a straight line would stretch across the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier and take up less space. Such an idea is incapable of absorption by the human mind.

Lardner, John

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

Crane, George W.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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