Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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

Buddha

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

Twain, Mark

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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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 is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Young, Eva

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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

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

Frost, Robert