Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Horton, Doug

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 is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Russell, Bertrand

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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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 expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Confucius

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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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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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