Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Quarles, Francis

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steere, Bishop

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

Confucius

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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 birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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