Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Dryden, John

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

Paine, Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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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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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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]

Bible

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

Rushdie, Salman

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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 precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Bible

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita