Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Huxley, Aldous

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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

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

Steere, Bishop

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Arrington, Eva

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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