Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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 we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Frost, Robert

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I thought so hard I got a headache.