Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Think then act safely.

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, 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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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