Motivational Quotes

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Paine, Thomas

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

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

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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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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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Proverb, Italian

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Voltaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Martin, Steve

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand