Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

- Chopra, Deepak

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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.

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

Bourget, Paul

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

May, Louise

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Braden, Vic

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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

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.