Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horton, Doug

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Po, Huang

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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Arrington, Eva

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.