Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

- Bourget, Paul

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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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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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montale, Eugenio

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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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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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

May, Louise

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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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