Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

- Bourget, Paul

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Duranty, Walter

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Braden, Vic

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Young, Eva

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

Voltaire

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thoughts are forces.