Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

He that never thinks can never be wise.

- Johnson

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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

Duranty, Walter

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Barzan, George

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Think then act safely.

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fredrich

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed -- from thought to wish -- from wish to purpose -- from purpose to word -- from word to act -- from act to habit -- from delight in the imagination to consent in the will -- from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.

Farrar, Frederick

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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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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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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 is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert