Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Frost, Robert

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Horton, Doug

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Huxley, Aldous

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Twain, Mark

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Braden, Vic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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