Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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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Think then act safely.

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

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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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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