Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Winfrey, Oprah

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Montale, Eugenio

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Think then act safely.

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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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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Paine, Thomas

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Buddha

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Voltaire

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.