Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Byron, Lord

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Dryden, John

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Horton, Doug

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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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.

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne