Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

- Dinsah, H.Jay

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Voltaire

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

Byron, Lord

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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 all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hugo, Victor

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

Braden, Vic

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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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