Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

10.

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

Byron, Lord

11.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

12.

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

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

15.

The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

16.

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

Fredrich

17.

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

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

21.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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.

23.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

Young, Eva

26.

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

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

31.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

32.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

33.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

34.

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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Arrington, Eva

37.

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

38.

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

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Chapman, John Jay

41.

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

42.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Russell, Bertrand

45.

Think then act safely.

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

49.

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

Barzan, George

50.

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.