Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

May, Louise

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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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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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Martin, Steve

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

Fredrich

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

Buddha

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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