Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Arrington, Eva

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Brookner, Anita

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The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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