Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Po, Huang

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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