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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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.

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Secker, Thomas

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Barzan, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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