Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

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

Taylor, Susan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Confucius

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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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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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