Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Those that think must govern those that toil.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Patton, George S.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Confucius

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Arrington, Eva

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Young, Eva

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

Bible

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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.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Think then act safely.

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George