Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Bible

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve