Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Kettering, Charles F.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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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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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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 labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

May, Louise

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Confucius

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Montale, Eugenio

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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