Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Brookner, Anita

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Think then act safely.

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

Buddha

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von