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

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

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Secker, Thomas

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Brookner, Anita

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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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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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Russell, Bertrand

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Bourget, Paul

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Kettering, Charles F.