Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care aboutwhat you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

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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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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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Young, Eva

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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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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Patton, George S.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

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

May, Louise

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Paine, Thomas

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Bourget, Paul

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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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