Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Chapman, John Jay

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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.

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

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Taylor, Isaac

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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Butterworth, Eric