Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Po, Huang

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barzan, George

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

Cousins, Norman

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Confucius

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak