Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Think then act safely.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Barzan, George

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Frost, Robert

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo