Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Arrington, Eva

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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Confucius

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

May, Louise

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Young, Eva

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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 reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.