Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Braden, Vic

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The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Confucius

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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 must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.