Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

Shaw, George Bernard

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

May, Louise

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

32.

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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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis