Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

Thoreau, Henry David

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Einstein, Albert

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Eliot, George

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Hugo, Victor

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

Chapman, John Jay

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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