Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

- Einstein, Albert

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Russell, Bertrand

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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 labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

May, Louise

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Barzan, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Eva

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Confucius

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop