Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

What was once thought can never be unthought.

- Friedrich, Carl J.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Buddha

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Italian

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Young, Eva

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson