Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Taylor, Susan

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

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Schuller, Robert H.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Adams, Bryan

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Brookner, Anita

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

Stevens, Wallace

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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Allen, James

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

Patton, George S.

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Think then act safely.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Secker, Thomas

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He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

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

Butterworth, Eric

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Hugo, Victor

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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

Confucius

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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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