Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Fredrich

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Po, Huang

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Think then act safely.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buddha

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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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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Secker, Thomas

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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