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

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Rushdie, Salman

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

May, Louise

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Think then act safely.

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

Horton, Doug

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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.

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

Braden, Vic

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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

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire