Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Butler, Samuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Taylor, Susan

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Twain, Mark

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Braden, Vic

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y