Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Proverb, Italian

Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

May, Louise

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.

Voltaire

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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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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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Paz, Octavio

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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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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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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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Confucius

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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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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 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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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

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Paine, Thomas

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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