Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Dryden, John

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Gardner, George

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mizner, Wilson

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Voltaire

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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Forster, Edward M.

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Buddha

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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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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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]

Bible

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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

Martin, Steve

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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther