Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Confucius

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Young, Eva

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

Twain, Mark

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bourget, Paul

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Think then act safely.

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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

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

Barzan, George

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Madwed, Sidney

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Fredrich

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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