Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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 and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Martin, Steve

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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 a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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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