Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

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

Voltaire

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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Braden, Vic

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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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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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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

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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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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Butterworth, Eric

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

May, Louise

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Martin, Steve