Motivational Quotes

Mind

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

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Mind

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

Crane, George W.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Buckley, Lord

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

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

Riley, Terry

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

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

Fairfax, Edward

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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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 mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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 mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Hilliard, Nicholas

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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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We are that which activates the body.

Pilgrim, Peace

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

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

Sallust

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Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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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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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?

Bono, Edward De

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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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We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only.

Miller, Henry

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Proverb

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Plath, Sylvia

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

Durant, William J.

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

Ramakrishna, Sri

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