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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Duranty, Walter

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Horton, Doug

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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

Paine, Thomas

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Allen, James

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Buddha