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

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Duranty, Walter

Think then act safely.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Paine, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One thought fills immensity.

Blake, William

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

Huxley, Aldous

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich, Carl J.

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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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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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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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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Hume, David

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Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Sutra, Diamond

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

May, Louise

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

Horton, Doug

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

Barzan, George

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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

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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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A man's what he thinks about all day long

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those that think must govern those that toil.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Rostand, Jean

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Montale, Eugenio

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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Holzer, Jenny

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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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Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

Mandino, Og

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Horton, Doug

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To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fredrich