Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Russell, Bertrand

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.