Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Cousins, Norman

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Harris, Franco

The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can't even write a letter.

Satta, Salvatore

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, Italian

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Brookner, Anita

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Po, Huang

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

Barzan, George

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Pascal, Blaise

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Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Braden, Vic

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Fredrich

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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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I think and that is all that I am.

Dyer, Wayne

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Huxley, Julian S.

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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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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Huxley, Aldous

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To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Secker, Thomas

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Taylor, Susan

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Thought makes every thing fit for use.