Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

- Adams, Bryan

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Barzan, George

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

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Buddha

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Adams, Bryan

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

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kempis, Thomas

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Think then act safely.

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

Young, Eva

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

Braden, Vic

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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