Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Montale, Eugenio

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arrington, Eva

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

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.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Bernanos, Georges

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Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Pascal, Blaise

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Eva

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

Proverb, Italian

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Dryden, John

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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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 great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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