Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is made in the mouth.

- Tzara, Tristan

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

Dryden, John

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Paine, Thomas

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Rushdie, Salman

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Patton, George S.

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fredrich

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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