Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

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

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

Paine, Thomas

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

Golding, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Patton, George S.

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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Horton, Doug

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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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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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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