Motivational Quotes

Mind

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

- Madwed, Sidney

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Johnson

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

Riley, Terry

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

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

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

Hare, David

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

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

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

Descartes, Rene

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The brain is the only part of the human machine that doesn't wear out. Probably it's because the brain is the only part that is not overworked.

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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

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

Milton, John

19.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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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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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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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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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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

Buddha

27.

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

Loos, Anita

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jackson, Andrew

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

40.

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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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

Horace

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Sperry, Roger

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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.