Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Allen, James

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Martin, Steve

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Patton, George S.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Po, Huang

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

Confucius

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Byron, Lord

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Horton, Doug

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver