Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Chapman, John Jay

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Martin, Steve

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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Think then act safely.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Confucius

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

Horton, Doug

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne