Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Stevens, Wallace

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

Madwed, Sidney

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Emerick, John J.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Rushdie, Salman

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Barzan, George

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Vauvenargues, Marquis 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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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Frost, Robert

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Murphy, Joseph Edward

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

Chapman, John Jay

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Buddha

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Faber, Frederick W.