Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Young, Eva

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

Patton, George S.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

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

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dryden, John

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Thoughts are forces.