Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Patton, George S.

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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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 is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Young, Eva

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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.