Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Quarles, Francis

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Horton, Doug

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

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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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

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Think then act safely.

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bourget, Paul

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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