Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

- Nathan, George Jean

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nightingale, Earl

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Braden, Vic

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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

Pascal, Blaise

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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barzan, George

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

Duranty, Walter

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