Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

- Allen, James

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Patton, George S.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mizner, Wilson

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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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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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Barzan, George

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco