Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

- Fleischer, Lenore

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, James

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Earl

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean