Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Byron, Lord

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Allen, James

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Italian

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Frost, Robert

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think then act safely.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Horton, Doug

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio