Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Hugo, Victor

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George 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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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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

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Voltaire

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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.

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Think then act safely.

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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

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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