Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Voltaire

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

May, Louise

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Buddha

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Frost, Robert

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.