Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Fredrich

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Dryden, John

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Young, 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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Patton, George S.

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

Hugo, Victor