Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Brookner, Anita

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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 are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Byron, Lord

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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 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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William