Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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.

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Voltaire

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Young, Eva

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paine, Thomas

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Kempis, 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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North