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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Aurelius, Marcus

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

12.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

13.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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.

20.

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

Stevens, Wallace

21.

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

Taylor, Isaac

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

24.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

25.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

27.

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

32.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

35.

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

Huxley, Aldous

36.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

37.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

38.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

40.

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

Kempis, Thomas

41.

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

42.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

46.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

48.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

49.

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

50.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard