Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Montale, Eugenio

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Watson, Thomas J.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Patton, George S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Young, Eva

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise