Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Brookner, Anita

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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 is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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 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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Braden, Vic

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell