Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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

May, Louise

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

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.