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

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

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Taylor, Isaac

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Secker, 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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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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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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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian 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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.