Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horton, Doug

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

Dryden, John

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Patton, George S.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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