Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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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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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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Think then act safely.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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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 one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Newton, Sir Isaac