Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

As you think, so shall you become.

- Lee, Bruce

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montale, Eugenio

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.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Young, Eva

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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

May, Louise

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Think then act safely.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Arrington, Eva

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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 revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Nightingale, Earl

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Horton, Doug

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De