Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

- Twain, Mark

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Horton, Doug

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Frost, Robert

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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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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas 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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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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 parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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

Allen, James

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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