Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Patton, George S.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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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's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Think then act safely.

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Allen, James

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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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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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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo