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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horton, Doug

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think then act safely.

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo