Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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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

2.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

4.

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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

6.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

7.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

12.

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

15.

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

Forster, Edward M.

16.

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

Arrington, Eva

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Stevens, Wallace

19.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

21.

Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

23.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

27.

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

28.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

30.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

34.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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.

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

39.

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

Barzan, George

40.

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

41.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Madwed, Sidney

43.

Think then act safely.

44.

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

Vivekananda, Swami