Motivational Quotes

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Think then act safely.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Confucius

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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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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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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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

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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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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Arrington, Eva

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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