Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Huxley, Aldous

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Twain, Mark

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Paine, Thomas

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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

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Think then act safely.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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