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

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Twain, Mark

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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.

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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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.

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb, Italian

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar