Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Voltaire

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Think then act safely.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, 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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cousins, Norman

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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 sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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