Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Horton, Doug

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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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

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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