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

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

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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Allen, James

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

Po, Huang

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Barzan, George

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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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

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.