Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Rushdie, Salman

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Dryden, John

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

May, Louise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Braden, Vic

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Byron, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne