Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

- Ashvaghosha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Ashvaghosha

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson