Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

Think then act safely.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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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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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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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther