Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kempis, Thomas

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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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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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 of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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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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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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

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

Steere, Bishop

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Frost, Robert