Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

May, Louise

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Martin, Steve

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Po, Huang

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.