Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Horton, Doug

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

Horton, Doug

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

Robbins, Anthony

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Patton, George S.

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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

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

Brookner, Anita

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Barzan, George

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Horton, Doug

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

May, Louise

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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.

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

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug