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

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Voltaire

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, 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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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.