Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

- Horton, Doug

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Marquis, Don

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Taylor, Isaac

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Montale, Eugenio

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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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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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 think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Young, Eva

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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.

Buddha

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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 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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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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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Stevens, Wallace

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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo