Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

- Hare, David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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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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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Horton, Doug

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Horton, Doug

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Fredrich

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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Confucius

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo