Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Frost, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Byron, Lord

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Buddha

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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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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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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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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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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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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

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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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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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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.