Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

- Patton, George S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Think then act safely.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dryden, John

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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 is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Braden, Vic

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Confucius

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David