Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Barzan, George

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Martin, Steve

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

Think then act safely.

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

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Confucius

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Duranty, Walter

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, 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.