Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

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.

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

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Secker, Thomas

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren