Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

- Holzer, Jenny

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Bourget, Paul

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Proverb, Italian

Think then act safely.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Secker, Thomas

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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fredrich

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Louise

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Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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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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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 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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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard