Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horton, Doug

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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

Frost, Robert

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Braden, Vic

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

May, Louise

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard