Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Paine, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Horton, Doug

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barzan, George

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Secker, Thomas

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Chapman, John Jay

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther