Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Frost, Robert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Think then act safely.

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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

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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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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.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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, 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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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Louise

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Confucius

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Eva

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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.