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Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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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

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Horton, Doug

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.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Braden, Vic

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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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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Frost, Robert

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Secker, Thomas

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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