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 only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Pascal, Blaise

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Confucius

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Steere, Bishop

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Think then act safely.

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

Quarles, Francis

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Braden, Vic

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De