Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Brookner, Anita

Think then act safely.

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.

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Nightingale, Earl

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Confucius

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

May, Louise

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Arrington, Eva

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.