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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Young, Eva

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

May, Louise

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Taylor, Isaac

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Allen, James

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dryden, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Italian

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Taylor, Susan

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

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