Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Rushdie, Salman

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Taylor, Susan

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

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

Frost, Robert

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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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Confucius

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

Martin, Steve

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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.

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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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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Voltaire

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Every thought we think is creating our future.