Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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.

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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Arrington, Eva

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark