Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Russell, Bertrand

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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