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

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dryden, John

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Stevens, Wallace

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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

Braden, Vic

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

Horton, Doug

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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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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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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

Huxley, Aldous

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