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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Dryden, John

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

Braden, Vic

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

Frost, Robert

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

Fredrich

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Butler, Samuel

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Watson, Thomas J.

34.

Think then act safely.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

May, Louise