Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Buddha

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

Mizner, Wilson

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.

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

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.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Think then act safely.

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Confucius

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

May, Louise

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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 I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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