Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Shaw, George Bernard

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Secker, Thomas

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Rushdie, Salman

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Po, Huang

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stevens, Wallace

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Huxley, Aldous

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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