Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Horton, Doug

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Fredrich

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Martin, Steve

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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 everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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