Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Arrington, Eva

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

May, Louise

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Steere, Bishop

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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Paine, Thomas

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo