Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Duranty, Walter

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

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

May, Louise

Think then act safely.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dryden, John

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

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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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

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Braden, Vic

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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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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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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