Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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Think then act safely.

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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

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dinsah, H.Jay

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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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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