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

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

Patton, George S.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Po, Huang

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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