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

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Po, Huang

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Arrington, Eva

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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

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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 think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Barzan, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier