Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Bourget, Paul

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maharshi, Ramana

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Young, Eva

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug