Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Rushdie, Salman

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

May, Louise

Think then act safely.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Young, Eva

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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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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Braden, Vic

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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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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Secker, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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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 what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Horton, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Frost, Robert

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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

Stevens, Wallace

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo