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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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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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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Horton, Doug

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Confucius

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horton, Doug