Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Young, Eva

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fredrich

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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.

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Barzan, George

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

Confucius

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana