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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Confucius

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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

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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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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Arrington, Eva

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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