Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Butler, Samuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Horton, Doug

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Italian

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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