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

Schuller, Robert H.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

Allen, James

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Make not your thoughts you prisons.

Shakespeare, William

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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Ashvaghosha

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Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much.

Dryden, John

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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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

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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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

May, Louise

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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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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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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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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Russell, Bertrand

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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bourget, Paul

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Aron, Elaine N.

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

Quarles, Francis

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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