Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Einstein, Albert

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Dryden, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Voltaire

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Horton, Doug

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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

May, Louise

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Buddha

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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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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

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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

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

Bible

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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Barzan, George

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