Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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

Braden, Vic

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

May, Louise

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

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

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Secker, Thomas

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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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