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

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

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

Quarles, Francis

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Bible

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

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Fredrich

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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

May, Louise

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og