Motivational Quotes

Mind

This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

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

Wilson, Colin

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hare, David

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Plutarch

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sallust

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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 components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Riley, Terry

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

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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

Johnson

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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dubay, S.

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl