Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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.

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

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Barzan, George

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Cousins, Norman

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Braden, Vic

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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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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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Russell, Bertrand