Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Buddha

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Taylor, Susan

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

Martin, Steve

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Braden, Vic

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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.