Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Think then act safely.

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

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Confucius

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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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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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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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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nightingale, Earl