Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Twain, Mark

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Steere, Bishop

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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, 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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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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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Patton, George S.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Frost, Robert

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bible

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.