Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fredrich

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Barzan, George

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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 am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Steere, Bishop

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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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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Young, Eva

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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.