Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think then act safely.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Young, Eva

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Madwed, Sidney

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Paine, Thomas