Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

As you think, so shall you become.

- Lee, Bruce

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Jefferson, Thomas

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barzan, George

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

May, Louise

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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

Quarles, Francis

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Secker, Thomas

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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