Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kempis, Thomas

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Allen, James

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

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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

Barzan, George

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

Duranty, Walter

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thoughts are forces.