Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

- Cousins, Norman

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Frost, Robert

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Horton, Doug

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Martin, Steve

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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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Voltaire

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent