Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

- Shakespeare, William

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

May, Louise

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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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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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Braden, Vic

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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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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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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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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Barzan, George

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

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

Butterworth, Eric