Quotes about thoughts-and-thinking

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

— Robert H. Schuller

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.

— David J. Schwartz

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

— Thomas Secker

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

— William Shakespeare

Thought is free.

— William Shakespeare

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

— George Bernard Shaw

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.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Rex Steven Sikes

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

To find yourself, think for yourself.

— Socrates

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

— Bishop Steere

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

— Wallace Stevens

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

— Diamond Sutra

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

— Isaac Taylor

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

— Susan Taylor

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

— Sara Teasdale

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.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

— Henry David Thoreau

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

Thoughts are forces.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

Thought is made in the mouth.

— Tristan Tzara

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

— Source Unknown

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

— Source Unknown

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

— Source Unknown

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Think then act safely.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

— Source Unknown

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

— Source Unknown

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

— Source Unknown

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

— Martin H. Fischer

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

— Source Unknown

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

— Paul Valery

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Voltaire

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

— Thomas J. Watson

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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).

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Eva Young

Gaining control of your thoughts is as easy as sitting by the ocean and controlling the waves.

— Michael Lipsey

The deeper thought is, the taller she becomes.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The thought that we conceive in our soul is the image built later in our heart to think in our mind and then practically see in our life."~Anuj Somany

— Anuj Somany