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

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

Arrington, Eva

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo