Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Chapman, John Jay

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Braden, Vic

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Huxley, Aldous

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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.

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

Horton, Doug

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise