Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

May, Louise

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Young, Eva

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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Satta, Salvatore

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

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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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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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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

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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