Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Braden, Vic

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

Po, Huang

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

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.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Horton, Doug

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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