Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Taylor, Isaac

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

12.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

14.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

16.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

17.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

19.

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.

20.

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Patton, George S.

24.

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

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Martin, Steve

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

Barzan, George

30.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Forster, Edward M.

37.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

38.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

39.

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

43.

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

Arrington, Eva

46.

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

Nightingale, Earl

47.

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.