Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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.

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.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Nightingale, Earl

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

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]

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Taylor, Susan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Lorayne, Harry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Braden, Vic

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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

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