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

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Dinsah, H.Jay

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Young, Eva

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Think then act safely.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.