Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Fredrich

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Watson, Thomas 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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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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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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dryden, John

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha