Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Bible

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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

Aurelius, Marcus

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Confucius

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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

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Fredrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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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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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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