Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

- Wilde, Oscar

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Fredrich

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

Horton, Doug

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

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Patton, George S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dryden, John

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Braden, Vic

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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Think then act safely.

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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.