Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Braden, Vic

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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Horton, Doug

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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

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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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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