Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the parent of the deed.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Allen, James

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Voltaire

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Butler, Samuel

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Arrington, Eva

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Secker, Thomas

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Thought is the parent of the deed.