Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

Think then act safely.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Braden, Vic

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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

May, Louise

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Russell, Bertrand

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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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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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