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

Peale, Norman Vincent

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Allen, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Forster, Edward M.

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chapman, John Jay

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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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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Confucius

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