Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dryden, John

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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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

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bourget, Paul

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise