Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

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.

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

Dryden, John

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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 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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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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 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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.