Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Brookner, Anita

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Secker, Thomas

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

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.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Barzan, George

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

May, Louise

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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Fredrich

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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Buddha

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo