Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Paine, Thomas

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Stevens, Wallace

As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Arrington, Eva

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Patton, George S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steere, Bishop

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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo