Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts are forces.

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Braden, Vic

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Dryden, John

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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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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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

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Barzan, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.