Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Cousins, Norman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Braden, Vic

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Secker, Thomas

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise