Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

Best Quotes about Mind

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brande, Dorothea

Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.

Carlson, Richard

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

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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

Wilson, Colin

Breton, Andre

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

Dubay, S.

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There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Vasishtha, Yoga

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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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The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Terry

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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

Dickens, Charles

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All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Johnson

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Loos, Anita

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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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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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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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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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

Daniel, Peter

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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 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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Cousins, Norman