Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Braden, Vic

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Steere, Bishop

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Barzan, George

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

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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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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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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