Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Hugo, Victor

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Hugo, Victor

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Confucius

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

May, Louise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Martin, Steve