Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Arrington, Eva

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fredrich

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

Young, Eva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montale, Eugenio