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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Johnson

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

Johnson

The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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 disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

Bhagavad Gita

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Bandler, Richard

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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.

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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 Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

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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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Fairfax, Edward

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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 mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hare, David

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

Nightingale, Earl

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.