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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Huxley, Aldous

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Rushdie, Salman

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Braden, Vic

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Einstein, Albert

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Young, Eva

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.