Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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 what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Madwed, Sidney

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Young, Eva

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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.

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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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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Aurelius, Marcus