Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

- Young, Eva

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Arrington, Eva

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

May, Louise

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Kempis, Thomas

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana