Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Byron, Lord

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

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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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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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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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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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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.

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Braden, Vic

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis