Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Winfrey, Oprah

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Susan

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

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bourget, Paul

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

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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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Young, Eva

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

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

Martin, Steve

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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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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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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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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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