Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Braden, Vic

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Fredrich

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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