Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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.

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Madwed, Sidney

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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Louise

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Earl

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus