Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Quarles, Francis

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

Rushdie, Salman

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vivekananda, Swami

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 is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Barzan, George

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, Eva

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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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Adams, Bryan

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, 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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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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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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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Eliot, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Patton, George S.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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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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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Russell, Bertrand

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Voltaire

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.