Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Bourget, Paul

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

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

Barzan, George

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

Frost, Robert

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

May, Louise

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Think then act safely.

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Arrington, Eva

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.