Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Confucius

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

Watson, Thomas J.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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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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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

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

Po, Huang

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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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Patton, George S.