Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Brookner, Anita

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.