Motivational Quotes

Thoughts and thinking

As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

- Buddha

Thoughts and thinking Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Thoughts and thinking

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.

Steere, Bishop

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Twain, Mark

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Fredrich

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Every thought we think is creating our future.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chapman, John Jay

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

Secker, Thomas

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As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Buddha

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rushdie, Salman

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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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You become what you think about.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Robbins, Anthony

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As you think, so shall you become.

Lee, Bruce

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Butler, Samuel

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.