Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Twain, Mark

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Young, Eva

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Barzan, George

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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

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Po, Huang

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

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

Dryden, John

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fredrich

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

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bible

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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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

Arrington, Eva

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Louise

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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 expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David