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

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mizner, Wilson

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

Hill, Napoleon

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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 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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Arrington, Eva

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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