Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Buddha

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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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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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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

Proverb, Italian

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

May, Louise

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

Hugo, Victor

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren