Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Terence

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Riley, Terry

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Horace

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Loos, Anita

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sperry, Roger

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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

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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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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The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Euripides

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Wright, Steven

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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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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'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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

Terence