Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

- Shakespeare, William

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Russell, Bertrand

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Braden, Vic

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

May, Louise

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Fredrich

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Young, Eva

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David