Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Horton, Doug

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Frost, Robert

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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 is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.