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 more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frost, Robert

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

Paine, Thomas

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 more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Horton, Doug

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Voltaire

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brookner, Anita

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Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I thought so hard I got a headache.

Cobb, J.D.

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]

Bible

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Paine, Thomas

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

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]

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Think success, don't think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, I'll win, not I'll probably lose. When you compete with someone else, think, I'm equal to the best, not I'm out-classed. When opportunity appears, think I can do it, never I can't. Let the master thought I-will-succeed dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

Fleischer, Lenore

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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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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

May, Louise

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

Madwed, Sidney

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Horton, Doug

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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

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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.

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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 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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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Pascal, Blaise

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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.