Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Barzan, George

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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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 in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Forster, Edward M.

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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