Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Think then act safely.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dryden, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Einstein, Albert

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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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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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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 is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.