Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Duranty, Walter

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

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Confucius

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Think then act safely.

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Barzan, George

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

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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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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

Steere, Bishop

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.