Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Young, Eva

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Steere, Bishop

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Barzan, George

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Taylor, Susan

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

Martin, Steve

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

Fredrich

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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 thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang