Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Confucius

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

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

Barzan, George

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo