Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

Paz, Octavio

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

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.

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

Stevens, Wallace

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Rushdie, Salman

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Allen, James

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

Secker, Thomas

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Twain, Mark

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

May, Louise

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frost, Robert

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas