Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Patton, George S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Buddha

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

Horton, Doug

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.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dryden, John

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

Voltaire

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Fredrich

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Rushdie, Salman

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Huxley, Aldous