Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

- Nightingale, Earl

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Think then act safely.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Dryden, John

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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 only a process of talking to yourself.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve