Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Young, Eva

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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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.

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

Arrington, Eva

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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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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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan