Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Fredrich

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Braden, Vic

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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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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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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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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

May, Louise

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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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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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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