Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Every thought we think is creating our future.

- Hay, Louise L.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Barzan, George

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Martin, Steve

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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