Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young, Eva

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Byron, Lord

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Confucius

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Secker, Thomas

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Frost, Robert

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha