Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

- Fredrich

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David