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

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Brookner, Anita

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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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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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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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Allen, James

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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.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Italian

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

May, Louise

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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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