Motivational Quotes

Mind

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Smith, Adam

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Aesop

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

Wright, Steven

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Highet, Gilbert

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Hare, David

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

Daniel, Peter

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.

Descartes, Rene

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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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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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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.