Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Madwed, Sidney

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Allen, James

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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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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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]

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

Thoreau, Henry 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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace