Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

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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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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Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Think then act safely.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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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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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Confucius

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Young, Eva

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell