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

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

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

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

Duranty, Walter

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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Think then act safely.

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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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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