Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Steere, Bishop

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Barzan, George

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Brookner, Anita

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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