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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Twain, Mark

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

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Barzan, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard