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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vivekananda, Swami

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

May, Louise

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Twain, Mark

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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.

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Think then act safely.

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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