Motivational Quotes

Mind

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Terry

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

Dickens, Charles

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Earl

We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Hendricks, Gay

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Smith, Adam

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

Johnson

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

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Plutarch