Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Byron, Lord

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Po, Huang

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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