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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barzan, George

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Horton, Doug

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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

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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

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

Madwed, Sidney

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan