Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Winfrey, Oprah

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Arrington, Eva

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cousins, Norman

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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.