Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Proverb, Italian

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Einstein, Albert

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

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Think then act safely.

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Cousins, Norman

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich