Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

- Allen, James

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Allen, James

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.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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

Frost, Robert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Secker, Thomas

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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Think then act safely.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.