Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

- Twain, Mark

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Robbins, Anthony

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Voltaire

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Barzan, George

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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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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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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Italian

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Po, Huang

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

Chapman, John Jay

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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.