Motivational Quotes

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Fredrich

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl 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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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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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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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

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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.

Taylor, Isaac

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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