Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Duranty, Walter

Think then act safely.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Braden, Vic

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Paine, Thomas

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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