Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Fredrich

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

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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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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I think and that is all that I am.