Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Steere, Bishop

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

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butler, Samuel

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.