Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

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.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Taylor, Isaac

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

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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

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Stevens, Wallace

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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

Barzan, George

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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Think then act safely.

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, 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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He that never thinks can never be wise.