Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Taylor, Susan

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Arrington, Eva

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean