Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

- Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bourget, Paul

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Martin, Steve

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Paine, Thomas

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Arrington, Eva

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Barzan, George

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous