Motivational Quotes

Mind

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Mind

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Hill, Napoleon

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Jessel, George

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

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

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

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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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

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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Breton, Andre

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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Loos, Anita

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sperry, Roger

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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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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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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buddha

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong.

Praise, Endless

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

Daniel, Peter

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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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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

Johnson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.