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

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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