Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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.

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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

May, Louise

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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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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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Secker, Thomas

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.