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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

Think then act safely.

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

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Chapman, John Jay

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Frost, Robert

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fredrich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.