Motivational Quotes

Mind

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

- Loos, Anita

Best Quotes about Mind

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kempis, Thomas

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

Edison, Thomas A.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Riley, Terry

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

Crane, George W.

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

Horace

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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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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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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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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 mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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