Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Dryden, John

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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