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

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

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

Brookner, Anita

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fredrich

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Mizner, Wilson

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y