Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Russell, Bertrand

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Russell, Bertrand

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