Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

- May, Louise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pascal, Blaise

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Montale, Eugenio

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Hugo, Victor

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Thought is made in the mouth.