Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

- May, Louise

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Steere, Bishop

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

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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 we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Martin, Steve

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Young, Eva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.