Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Quarles, Francis

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

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

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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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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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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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Brookner, Anita

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

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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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

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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