Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Montale, Eugenio

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Secker, Thomas

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.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Huxley, Aldous

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Bible

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Thought is the parent of the deed.