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

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

Wilson, Colin

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

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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

Praise, Endless

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

All the resources we need are in the mind

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Plutarch

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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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 human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

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A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 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 hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Hare, David

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Johnson

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Fairfax, Edward

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Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

Steinbeck, John

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

Wright, Steven

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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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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 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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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Descartes, Rene