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 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

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Steere, Bishop

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

12.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

13.

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

14.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Russell, Bertrand

20.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

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

Taylor, Susan

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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.

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

28.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Think then act safely.

30.

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

34.

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

35.

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

36.

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

37.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

38.

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

41.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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

Robbins, Anthony

43.

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

44.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

45.

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

47.

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