Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Chapman, John Jay

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Allen, James

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

Nightingale, Earl

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Horton, Doug

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

Young, Eva

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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Think then act safely.

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, 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