Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

12.

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

13.

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

14.

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

15.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

16.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

18.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

19.

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

20.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

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

Buddha

28.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

31.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

32.

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

33.

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

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.

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

Russell, Bertrand

37.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

38.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

40.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

42.

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

Frost, Robert

43.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

45.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal