Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

- Young, Eva

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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 in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Bible

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.