Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buddha

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

Taylor, Susan

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

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

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Martin, Steve

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

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

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

Arrington, Eva

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.

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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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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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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts are forces.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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 thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Thales of Miletus

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Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

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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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Thought is made in the mouth.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twain, Mark

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Chapman, John Jay

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Hare, David

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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Horton, Doug

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

Paine, Thomas

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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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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Dyer, Wayne

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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Chapman, John Jay

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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

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Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Braden, Vic

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.