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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

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

Taylor, Isaac

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Kempis, Thomas

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

11.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

14.

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

18.

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.

19.

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

Secker, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

23.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

24.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

28.

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

Po, Huang

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Braden, Vic

32.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Bourget, Paul

37.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

38.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

39.

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

Proverb, Italian

40.

Think then act safely.

41.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

45.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

48.

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

Horton, Doug