Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

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]

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

Brookner, Anita

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Young, Eva

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Huxley, Aldous