Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Forster, Edward M.

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Think then act safely.

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

Young, Eva

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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

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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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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian