Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hugo, Victor

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Braden, Vic

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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

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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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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Confucius

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Brookner, Anita

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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