Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Duranty, Walter

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Young, Eva

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

Chapman, John Jay

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Dryden, John

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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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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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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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.