Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Martin, Steve

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

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Young, Eva

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Secker, Thomas

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin