Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

Martin, Steve

22.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

25.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

34.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kettering, Charles F.

42.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

Think then act safely.

44.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Buddha

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

49.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.