Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Cousins, Norman

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Dryden, John

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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

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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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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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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Peale, Norman Vincent