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

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

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

Think then act safely.

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Allen, James

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

May, Louise

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Buddha

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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.

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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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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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.