Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

- Gardner, George

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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.

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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

Buddha

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Fredrich

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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 you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.