Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

He that never thinks can never be wise.

- Johnson

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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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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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Barzan, George

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Brookner, Anita

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

May, Louise

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich